Posted on 05/08/2009 5:37:32 PM PDT by GVnana
BARACK Obama is a history buff. When he makes a political point he instinctively reaches for the historical parallel: the Lincolnesque "team of rivals" making up his cabinet, Winston Churchill's attitude to torture or his own family's experience of World War II.
The only problem is that he sometimes gets history wrong. His plan to visit Buchenwald is in part a tribute to his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf, a satellite camp. Last May, however, Mr Obama said that his uncle "was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz". Republicans pointed out that it was the Soviets who liberated Auschwitz.
"Unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there's no way Obama's statement can be true," a Republican spokesman said.
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Teleprompter ignorance....Barack is a “history buff” as much as I am a motorcycle afficiando....nada
Klinton was the master liar.
lol
I seem to remember the Red Army had a Kenyan corps.
Depends on what the meaning of ‘was’, is.
Well maybe it was true.
What’s sad is thanks to the state of public education most folks would swallow the lie whole.
By “buff” they mean according to affirmative-action standards.
We have Zero proof about his scholastic aptitude. Not a single essay. Not a single marked-up copy of an article he allegedly edited for the Harvard Law Review, not a single grade or GPA.
Based on many of his non-teleprompter statements, we have to assume he was admitted under the bar.
Obalmy is a revisionist. His re-telling of history is calculated to place the United States, most of its leaders, and its founders in the worst possible light.
It was 0bama’s Uncle Joe Stalin.
Libtards ARE, apparently, entitled to their own facts.
Which Clinton? Both of them have been caught.
But Zero has Biden as backup. Oh wait...nevermind.
The IS NO history....except what Dear Leader decides IS history. And you know it will include ‘ALL ABOUT HIM’.
“Unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there’s no way Obama’s statement can be true,” a Republican spokesman said.
Now THAT is certainly something to consider, isn’t it?
barack obama - history buff???
Yeah, right... and Madeline O’Hare was a Bible scholar.
obama is a 60’s radical socialism buff if anything. THAT’S what fascinates him and that’s what he worships. -After himself, of course...
WWII is a hot history topic in madrassas.
Well, the Final Solution part is anyway.
Not to stick up for President Clueless but most Americans today are even stupider than he is when it comes to European history...or American history for that matter.
The next time you read one of your children’s history text books make sure you have a barf bag beside you.
I remember going through one of my son’s old history text books and there was nothing in there to indicate that European explorers discovered and civilized North America.
Not a word about the great English, Dutch, French and Italian explorers who opened the New World and not a sentence about the heroic Conquistadors and Spanish explorers.
The Muslim demographics may well resolve this Civilizational challenge for us by simply overwhelming Western democracy by sheer numbers in the decades ahead.
However, Obama and his malignant cohorts are well on their way to destroying the very life structure and fabric of our Republic. And, unless unless this obscene agenda is not thwarted by whatever means necessary, our citizens will reap their just rewards — for gross dereliction in the face of mortal danger.
The Tea Parties must be considered just the foundation of essential National movement in open, but legal, defiance of the corrupt National Leadership that is well on its way to ensuring the imminent demise of our once proud Nation.
The time to act is NOW! Unzip the pocketbooks and March!
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