Posted on 05/27/2008 11:48:44 AM PDT by PA Engineer
“My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,” he told a small group of veterans here
Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.
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“I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps and the story in our family is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months, right. Now obviously something had really affected him deeply but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain,” he said.
See post 71. This is a pattern.
How can he misspeak about his wife’s “brother”?
Treblinka was abandoned in 1943, so even the claim of entering Treblinka is highly suspect.
Another version.
His “grandfather”—does he mean the white, cracker grandfather, the one who married Barry’s white, racist grandmother?
“Uncle” ? But his white cracker mom was an only child. Did a Kenyan Uncle cross the Atlantic and join the US Army during WW2?
I stand corrected everyone, thanks, he indeed does say that his uncle was part of the first liberators of Auschwitz.
It is not the ENTIRE original quote.
I saw that a moment too late.
Weegee, I was suspicious of that 2002 speech.
I looked at you tube and could only find a short clip about a “dumb war”
the second I found says in a preface,
“The film of that speech has been lost, except for the 13 seconds that follow.”
Suspicious. Especially in the digital age. I wonder if there’s been some revisionism...
As far as I can tell, no “fellow troops” would have entered Treblinka either.
One WW 2 vet I know said he helped liberate Belgium. I asked what part and he the wine and chickens part. How do you do that I asked. He said you just point your rifle at the person holding them prisoner.
Needless to say he didn’t take himself too seriously.
The actual quote per Fox
“I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps and the story in our family is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months, right. Now obviously something had really affected him deeply but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain,”
Can't listen to the video now, but this link claims to have it. If he didn't say it, obviously Fox has it very, very wrong.
I guess when Holocaust story fabricating President Obama finally meets face to face with Holocaust denier Iranian president Ahmadinejad, they’ll have a lot to talk about.
You make an excellent point. He said “I cannot know”, suggesting it was something that was out of his control.
The proper statement would have been “I do not know”, which would indicate it was a decision on his part that led to his inability to comprehend.
You say “I cannot know” when you are talking to a cancer survivor and you have not had cancer.
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