Posted on 05/27/2008 9:25:13 AM PDT by wsjreader
Have We Heard of Obama's Uncle Before?
A key update to this post, in which Obama describes "his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz."
From a Chicago Tribune profile of Obama's mother:
The education of Obama the would-be politician didn't begin, of course, until after his birth in 1961, in Honolulu. But the parental traits that would mold him — a contrarian worldview, an initial rejection of organized religion, a questioning nature — were already taking shape years earlier in the nomadic and sometimes tempestuous Dunham family, where the only child was a curious and precocious daughter of a father who wanted a boy so badly that he named her Stanley — after himself.
Presuming Obama's mother didn't have some previously unknown long-lost brother, is Obama referring to his mother's cousin or some other, more distant relation on his mother's side? A great-uncle perhaps?
This uncle couldn't be on his Kenyan father's side, could it?
I doubt Obama would be insane enough to lie about this. But I think this is the first we've heard of this uncle from Obama. Like with his previously-unmentioned trip to Pakistan, Obama — the subject of two autobiographies, other biographies, and countless magazine and newspaper profiles — there are still chapters of his life story not yet explored.
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
es party line, commrade!
“Uncle Joe” is the best line ever!!!
Being the Dem nominee is going to his head.
Keep him talking. It just gets better.
Well, Hillary, nee Hildegarde, ought to take the opportunity to remind everyone of having been born under Allied bombardment in a Berlin bunker to loving mother Eva Braun.
Yeah, that’s it. It’s right up there with alGore’s inventing the internet and being the inspiration for the book, Love Story.
I love that movie! Sadly it is not available for sale in the US.
“Uncle Joe Stalin,” that would be.
Obama is way too young to have had an uncle serving in WW2? I’m sure John McCain could have had Uncles serving in WW2- his father did.
Maybe Obama was referring to Uncle Sam!
Don’t forget his being sung to sleep by his mother with the “Look for the Union Label” song!
A SOVIET Unit under Maj. Anatoly Shapiro liberated Auschwitz.
Did Kenyan’s Serve in the Soviet Army??
Indeed it's not for sale in the U.S. Too many demeaning stereotypes of the black worldview and culture. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a contemporary gangsta' rap star who would disagree with me.
Obviously, this is just the dirty work of his “typical white” grandma. She just wanted to make the black boy look bad by feeding him false info about “typical white” family...
The gas chambers of Birkenau were blown up by the SS in January 1945 in an attempt to hide the German crimes from the advancing Soviet troops. On January 17, 1945 Nazi personnel started to evacuate the facility; most of the prisoners were forced on a death march to the camp toward Wodzisław Śląski (German: Loslau). Those too weak or sick to walk were left behind; about 7,500 prisoners were liberated by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army on January 27 1945. However on Memorial Day, May 26, 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama claimed his uncle was part of an American Division that assisted in the liberation. Historians are unaware of any such division. [1]
Maybe he’s hiding under the same bus he threw his “typical white” grandmother under?
"As we landed at the local airport today, I had to run from the plane ducking Bosnian sniper bullets until I got into my bullet proof SUV. While running and ducking sniper bullets, I remembered my crazy uncle in the attice, who might have served in WWII."
At that time the US military was still segregated. Although there were a few black units that served courageously in combat (the Tuskeegee Airman and the “Triple Nickel” parachutists come to mind) most were in support roles.
There is a segment in “Victory at Sea” showing US troops forcing the front gate open at (as I recall) Buchenwald.
They were white. That is not to say that other support units did not follow along later, of course.
If his Uncle was with the Red Army, he could have been there. It was the Russians who liberated Auschwitz in January of 1945.
http://www.suntimes.com/images/cds/special/family_tree.html
http://the.hesperos.googlepages.com/AncestorsofBarackHusseinObamaJr.pdf
And most useful so far:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=delcy&id=I000449&op=AHN
Here are the candidates for the WWII vet crazy uncle:
Ralph Waldo Emerson DUNHAM , Jr.
Ralph L. BERKEBILE.
Cecil Max GOELDNER
Lewis Marion HERRINGTON.
Hugh Innes WHITNEY.
Harry Cecil MANN
Earl Dewey DUNHAM
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