Obama does a Hillary on history

Herald Sun ^ | 28 May 2008

[Aussie Dasher]

DEMOCRAT Barack Obama admitted he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said Soviet troops freed the camp.

Senator Obama's campaign said the candidate meant to say that his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, had helped liberate a part of the Buchenwald camp, not Auschwitz.

"Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically," said campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

Mr Burton said in the statement that Obama's great uncle served in the 89th Infantry Division that entered Germany in 1945 and on April 4 overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Senator Obama had made the Auschwitz reference in a Memorial Day speech on Monday.

More than 1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed at Auschwitz, an extermination camp in Poland. Buchenwald in Germany was mainly a forced labor camp, where some 56,000 people are believed to have died.

"I had an uncle who was ... part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps," Senator Obama said.

[Tribune7]

And this was not some off-the-cuff answer to a question but a prepared speech.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re seeing dead people.

Richard Carlson (an American actor) - “They walk around, lifeless, no expressions on their faces, without a soul”.

Bob Hope (an American comedian/actor) - “Oh, you mean Democrats”.

And this was from a movie made in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s. Nothing has changed.

A salute to your troops in Afghanistan. They are kicking Taliban ass big time.

[Enchante]

Get ready for the liberal push-back, here it comes! Now the correct stance is not that anyone should criticize Obambi for exploiting the Holocaust in order to promote his current stance on GI benefits, or that anyone can say Obambi is clueless about WWII history, the Holocaust, and his own family (the “typical white person” side of it)..... no, now the counter-attack is that eviiillll Republicans are the ones politicizing this and “using the Holocaust and concentration camps as a political football” — yep, you read it here folks, it’s all our fault for noticing that O-Gaffe is a walking, talking joke of a candidate:

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“Obama campaign aides were indignant that Republicans had pounced on what they called an innocent mistake over such a grave subject. Tommy Vietor, an Obama spokesman, decried “using the Holocaust and concentration camps as a political football.””

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/27/obamas_uncle_and_the_liberatio.html

[GraceCoolidge]

You’re right, that’s a typical response. Yet if a Republican had made such a gaffe, you’d be hearing how unbelievably crass it is that a Republican doesn’t even know one concentration camp from another. You can imagine the media stories: For those who survived the camps, the memories of death and desolation will never disappear. Yet to one candidate, the camps are indistinguishable, merely names not even worth the effort of accurate memory....

[A message]

on what they called an innocent mistake

There is nothing innocent about Obama Bin Lying.

Everyday he proves he unfit to be President.

[Enchante]

oh, yes, any Republican who botched this would never ever hear the end of it........ if we can extrapolate from the MSM meltdown over Dan Quayle adding an ‘e’ to ‘potato’ then just imagine the volcanic coverage if he had said something like this!!

The double-standards never go away.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Did I saw WWII? I meant to say the Korean War and an Uncle's buddy was at the 4077th MASH unit! Whats that? That was a TV show? I meant to say that he was at Ding Bang and he was a double secret Green beret and he jumped out of FB-1170s over Trin Bong and used his ALICE pack to glide into Trang Dang Lang. His code name was Agent Orange!





SO MANY War Heroes, So little time. Possibly someone can help me...is this a picture of Obama? John Kerry? Eddie Murphy? Corporal Klinger? Sgt. Schultz? All of the above?






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[lilylangtree]

Ooooooo, now osama hussein is white again. That fence he’s sitting should be broken by now.

[Enterprise]

ROFL!

[Tanniker Smith]

When I said my uncle was a Green Beret, I really meant that he used to watch The Green Hornet.

[Kirkwood]

Another episode of Obama's Fractured Fairy Tales.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Absolutely plausible and deniable as well. Jack Murtha should be such an ironman.

[hellbender]

Tommy Vietor, an Obama spokesman, decried “using the Holocaust and concentration camps as a political football.”

We're using the Holocaust as a football? It's B. Hussein, boasting of his grandfather/uncle/whoever liberating a death camp, while his "spiritual guide" and mentor Jeremiah Wright gives awards and praise to Holocaust skeptic (to put it mildly) and notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who is the one making a trivial political plaything out of the Holocaust.

[SIDENET]

LOL.

Uncle Joe is every democrat's uncle.

[anymouse]

Dr. Dean: War's over, man. Hillery dropped the big one.

Barack: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Oberman: Germans?

Chrissy Matthews: Forget it, he's rolling.

Barack: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Barack: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Barack: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Barack, we might get in trouble."
Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Hilery, he's a dead man! McCain, dead! Nader...

Oberman: Dead! Barack's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.

Barack: We're just the guys to do it.

Dr. Dean: Let's do it.

Barack: LET'S DO IT!

[Alamo-Girl]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Berosus]

About three years ago in Delphiforums.com, I got hard on one lady’s case for insisting that World War II ended in 1947. However, it sounds like Obama’s mistake is worse.

[Baladas]

“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong”.

The dimbulb is right here - from what I hear, dead people make quite the patriots.