Campaign says Obama mistaken on Nazi camp (OGaffa responds)

For all of Obama’s misstatements and outright LIES, I think you really have to chalk this one up as an incorrect statement, but not a misstatement of truth. His uncle/granduncle, whatever. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, it doesn't matter. They were both horrible camps.

Let's give the vet in the family the benefit of the doubt and realize that Obama was very young at that time that they would have talked about his family member. He probably WAS at the liberation and WAS affected deeply.

The only better explanation is that Obama’s uncle WAS in the Red Army which explains Obama’s communist tendencies.

“I was thinking more about all the things we don’t know about family history, the stories that we hear that we never bothered to check out. “

sure - and that’s something most of us don’t bother considering until we are forced to study it in school - or we become genuinely interested in our family members and their experience.

“But the knowledge of big picture history should have prevented a candidate from making a mistake like that”

I guess it’s pie-in-the-sky thinking on my part that a candidate for president of the USA would have a good handle on fairly recent history - especially considering he wants to be commander-in-chief.
At the very least, I expect him to choose good staff members who can fact check him.

This strikes me as a not-so-genuine attempt to connect with whites and especially jews.
But in the process he confuses Buchenwald with Auschwitz.

Maybe an understandable mistake for the average joe who doesn’t think history is important...not so understandable from someone like Barak.

Thanks! fwiw, I just tried to pull together on this thread a bit more of what I find offensive about Obama taking such a casual and careless interest in this history only now, when it serves his political interests:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2022248/posts?page=76#76

was from a site about Kansas veterans of world war II. I checked wikipedia to see where Obama’s grandmother was from and it was Augusta Kansas, then checked the Kansas WWII site to see all Charlie Paynes from Kansas in the war. There was one Charlie Payne from Augusta Kansas, so I am pretty sure he is the right one. There were three Chalie Paynes from Kansas in the Army and the rest were in Coast Guard or Navy.

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