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Obama corrects gaffe on kin's participation in freeing Auschwitz
The Boston Globe ^ | May 28, 2008 | FOON RHEE

Posted on 05/28/2008 5:23:22 AM PDT by Baladas

Republicans tried yesterday to jump on it as a question of Barack Obama's judgment. His campaign chalked it up to an innocent mistake.

The latest gaffe in the presidential campaign started during a Memorial Day event in New Mexico, where Obama talked about his uncle being among the US troops who liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. "And the story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months," Obama said.

The veracity of the recollection started rebounding around the blogosphere, then yesterday, the Republican National Committee issued a missive.

"Barack Obama's dubious claim is inconsistent with world history and demands an explanation," RNC spokesman Alex Conant said. "It was Soviet troops that liberated Auschwitz, so unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there's no way Obama's statement yesterday can be true. Obama's frequent exaggerations and outright distortions raise questions about his judgment and his readiness to lead as commander in chief."

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KEYWORDS: 2008; barackhusseinobama; democratprimary; gaffe; obama; obamafamily; wwii
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To: Baladas

“His campaign chalked it up to an innocent mistake.”

Just how many “innocent mistakes” does this guy get? If you ask me (and nobody did) the guy is scared to death of McCain’s service record and needs to demonstrate on some level that he too has/had “skin” in the game. It’s just too bad for him that he has to borrow someone else’s skin to accomplish this goal.

Obama needs to quit the Senate and the race for the White House and immediately go back to high school and take a remedial course in AMERICAN history...something he would obviously fail miserably. So far his mouth has gotten him where he is...his utter lack of scruples, honesty, and ethics should be a glaring warning bell to all who even consider this “candidate”. There is no THERE there!! He has taken the usual, lazy leftist tack...if you can’t make an honest point to win a debate or a vote, make **it up. In other words...LIE.


41 posted on 05/28/2008 6:32:17 AM PDT by tiger640 (NO DEMOCRATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!! NOT NOW NOT EVER!!!)
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To: Blue Turtle
How many more GAFFES can this guy make and get a free pass????

Personally, this uncle thing is a way of blinding us from the other "gaffe du jour" ...the one in his memorial day speech where he seems to not know the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day as he apparently is seeing dead people in the audience.

"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".....excerpt Barak Obama, Las Cruces NM, May 26, 2008

And most websites now claiming the text of his speech have "whitewashed" the above bold text in excerpt from the text of said speech.

42 posted on 05/28/2008 6:35:31 AM PDT by OBXWanderer (Rino McCain, attempting to make conservatism irrelevant....www.dontvoterino.com)
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To: ctdonath2

Buchenwald was liberated on 11 April 1945 by elements of the 83rd AND the 89th Division.The 89th liberated Ohrdruf (a Buchenwald subcamp)

He also left out the 4th and 6th Armoured Divisions..the 89th was one of several units and was NOT the only one there as he implies

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=

neither was the navy, heh.


43 posted on 05/28/2008 6:37:47 AM PDT by Baladas (M)
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To: Baladas

For a man so opposed to private gun ownership, Obama sure spends a lot of time blasting away at his foot.


44 posted on 05/28/2008 6:40:36 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: OBXWanderer

And they’d get away with removing it from the transcript, if it was 30 years ago.

Meanwhile, the other more serious issue here was Obama using Nazi concentration camps, and the suffering and death of so many people there, to try to make a political point about spending more money on mental health benefits?

And why? Because to Obama, the real victim of Auschwitz wasn’t those who died there, but his uncle who had to see it.


45 posted on 05/28/2008 6:44:25 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Ann Archy
Yes. Check out post 36 in this thread. All of the database information is there to look up with direct links. The handler spin does not even add up.
46 posted on 05/28/2008 7:04:04 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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Why can't a reporter ask what the Uncle's name was, what unit he served with and, especially, where he lived following discharge. Staying in the attic for six months is unusual behavior. Someone in a small town would remember whether it's true or not. Also,social security records would reveal whether the uncle worked during this period.

C’mon Reporters: let's learn more about this guy: he was in the midwest, not Africa. Someone knows him. Did he go to school on the GI Bill, marry, have kids, etc., etc. etc.

47 posted on 05/28/2008 7:11:31 AM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Baladas
It should not be an "issue." I doubt, considering Obama's friends and associates, that he's ever given any thought to his family's military service to America. He's an lefty ideologue.

Only leftists depend upon things like the phonetic spelling of potato for "issues."

The issue, for example, is Obama's feeeeeeeeeelings about Americans; to wit, that working class Americans are ne'er-do-well bigoted dolts clinging to Bibles and guns and Americans as a whole are the worlds odious orphans running wild consuming orders of magnitude more resources than the rest of the world combined. Americans have to be changed to make America and the world great, says Obama. Now that's an issue!

48 posted on 05/28/2008 7:19:40 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Baladas
The Main Scream Media finally got them a “Boy” so to speak and come hell or high water their going to protect this naivete Marxist nincompoop.

I would think that most corporations would have trouble hiring this guy based solely on his lack of an experienced work record.

From what I hear coming out of Obama mouth, leads me to believe that he is a true ultimate product of diversity gone wild.

49 posted on 05/28/2008 7:23:07 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: Nevadan
If things weren't so bleak we wouldn't need Obama the Messiah and his bitter wife to change things.

Exactly!!!

50 posted on 05/28/2008 7:23:47 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years, because Truman first withdrew troops from Korea in 1949.)
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To: Baladas

Why would Obama bring up Hitler and the Holocaust in the first place? It only highlights his irrational and unrealistic view of anti-Semitic dictators.


51 posted on 05/28/2008 7:25:29 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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To: PA Engineer

Sooooo....Obama’s great uncle was in the NAVY??? Not in the ARMY??


52 posted on 05/28/2008 7:29:45 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Baladas

The suprise is that Jewish organizations have not taken Obama to task. Plus I am suprised that Obama does not take the advice of Sen. McCain and make a visit to Iraq and see the vast improvements since the “surge”.


53 posted on 05/28/2008 7:35:52 AM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
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To: PA Engineer

What suprises me is that there has been no complaints coming from the Jewish community. Hmmmmmmmmm.


54 posted on 05/28/2008 7:38:26 AM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
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To: Baladas
His campaign chalked it up to an innocent mistake.

Like any good dim liberal, he never lets the truth or the facts stand in his way.

55 posted on 05/28/2008 8:00:47 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Osama Hussein Obama Hater - bitterly clinging to my guns and religion.)
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To: Baladas

56 posted on 05/28/2008 4:33:55 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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