It will be most interesting to see whether his great-uncle chooses to say anything. Can’t imagine he’d want to get involved in discrediting O-Gaffa unless there is a really big rift, but Mr. Payne (?) could certainly settle whether or not he was a PTSD case who disappeared in the attic for 6 months after the war, whether there really was an attic, etc.
The real issues, though, in my view is simply that Obama has botched the telling of this tale, twice (2002 and 2008) in a way that indicates he neither knows nor cares anything about WWII and Holocaust history (never mind his own “typical white person” family history). This guy researched and published a memoir in which he goes into great detail about his Kenyan “family” of the father he never knew, yet he knows almost nothing of the actual heroic WWII history of the actual “white person” family represented by his mother. What does that say about him?
The 2002 and 2008 versions could be different events, but he's either botched them, or like Hillary's sniper fire, come to believe his fabrications. My guess his uncle is getting a bit of attention whether he wants it or not. Whether or not the breakdown anecdote is true, I'll speculate not, a shame it has to be a topic of discussion in his old age.
Well-noted.
At the minimum it says that anyone with such apparent personal/psychological orientation problems has no business having charge of (or anything to do with) U. S. national security and thus the life and death decisions involving some 300 million U.S. citizens.