Another Obama Whopper

The Obama File ^ | June 1, 2009 | Beckwith

[sig226]

That won’t work. They’ll blame the Bush administration. :)

[maggief]

Thank you for the ping.

[gibsosa]

bump

[danamco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI

[danamco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQAlczc9T8U

[Tenniel2]

The "57" remark is a tempting addition to the body of evidence against him, but it's a pup that doesn't quite hunt.

What he actually said was "... fifty ... [slight hesitation] seven states? I think, one left to go. Uh, one left to go -- Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to because -- but my staff, uh, would not justify it."

It pains me to say it, but I'm afraid on this one he gets the benefit of the doubt. Assuming he meant to say "forty," we get 47 plus one ("left to go") plus two (Alaska and Hawaii, "not allowed to go to"), for a total of 50.

Nevertheless: this usurper of the Presidency should be arrested, tried, and punished for any number of offenses, from falsification of documents up to and including treason.

[SoCal Pubbie]

What you wrote is true enough, but the media would not have given Quayle a pass, nor Bush, for doing the same thing. The fact remains that Obama screwed up, and for such a so called great speaker, it was a big flub, too.

[Lazamataz]

It's not a lie. CT Payne was on the submarine that liberated Auchwitz!! Here's a picture as it crawls ashore on D-Day....

[Tammy8]

This article that came out recently has Obama's uncle telling his version of the story.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5407590/Barack-Obamas-great-uncle-criticises-him-over-Buchenwald-visit.html

"He couldn't have gotten it from me since we had never talked about this particular episode in the war," he said. "My sister and her husband were both great storytellers and sometimes made up the details to go along with it. They told him about my deployment with the 89th Infantry Division and apparently they mixed up a few details."

Mr Obama soon called Mr Payne to check the details of his war experience, he said. "He wanted to know where this camp was that I had helped liberate. I told him that it was Ohrdruf and that it was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I described a little bit of what I had seen," he said.

Raised in Kansas, Mr Payne was the brother of Mr Obama's late grandmother Madelyn Dunham, and joined the army as soon as he had finished school. He was among the first US soldiers to discover the horrors of the Holocaust first hand.

[Old Grumpy]

“So, Obomba is a narcissistic, marxist, chronic liar. We’re so lucky.”

Don’t you mean to say ANOTHER narcissistic, marxist, chronic liar? Don’t forget Slick & Her Heinous.

[Beckwith]

Here's another one. Hot Air reports that last week, Barack Obama announced the creation of a cyber security czar, giving his administration more czars than the Russian Empire, but that’s another issue altogether.  In order to convince Americans of the necessity of such a position, Obama gave us this dire scenario in his speech:

"In short, America’s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity."

"And this is also a matter of public safety and national security. We count on computer networks to deliver our oil and gas, our power and our water.  We rely on them for public transportation and air traffic control.  Yet we know that cyber intruders have probed our electrical grid and that in other countries cyber attacks have plunged entire cities into darkness."

Rob Rosenberger at Vmyths, a site dedicated to debunking urban legends about cyberspace, said, that he, and other experts, bashed this urban legend more than a year ago.  Now, Obama is spouting it as if it’s a fact.

Rosenberger says Obama has basically told a boogeyman story:

This report is an urban legend because no one knows any details whatsoever.  To be specific:

•  Who plunged entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  When did these cyber-terrorists plunge entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  Where are these cities that plunged into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  Why did the cyber-terrorists plunge these cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  How widespread were these cyber-terror blackouts?  No one knows.
•  Whose power grid Internet connection did the cyber-terrorists exploit?  No one knows.
•  How many victims perished in these cyber-attacks?  No one knows.

[STARWISE]

Obama relative recalls World War II horror
President may visit concentration camp great-uncle helped liberate

By John McCormick | Tribune reporter
May 8, 2009

For much of his 84 years, Charles Payne has lived in Chicago in relative obscurity and watched his sister’s grandson rise to the presidency.

But now it appears possible that a painful part of Payne’s own story will be brought to the forefront, based on German news reports that President Barack Obama is considering a visit to the concentration camp that his great uncle helped liberate in April 1945.

Rest here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-great-uncle-08-may08,0,6675721.story

[ansel12]

It seems you made a big mistake on this one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260437/posts

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_buchenwald/2009/05/28/219295.html
Payne, 84, is no stranger to Americans: The Obama campaign used his WWII experiences last year to burnish the candidate’s all-American upbringing. But Obama made a gaffe when he said his great uncle liberated Auschwitz. In fact, Payne was part of the force that liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in April 1945.

[Beckwith]

I don’t understand your post #53.

What is the mistake?

[ansel12]

I just woke up so maybe I am confused about what you posted but I thought you were claiming that his uncle served in the navy not the army.

[LucyT]

Thanks, Beckwith. Have to bookmark this thread, too.

Another Obama Whopper

[ansel12]

In the Spiegal interview Payne states that he was in the 89th Infantry and that Obama’s gaffe was naming the wrong concentration camp, Payne was at Ohrdruf not Auschwitz.

SPIEGEL: At first Mr. Obama claimed that one of his family members was involved in the liberation Auschwitz. How did this misunderstanding come about?

Payne: He couldn’t have gotten it from me since we had never talked about this particular episode in the war. My sister and her husband were both great storytellers and sometimes made up the details to go along with it. They told him about my deployment with the 89th Infantry Division and apparently they mixed up a few details. Of course it came out immediately that he was wrong since there are enough people in America who know that Auschwitz is in the East and that the camp was liberated by the Red Army.

SPIEGEL: Afterwards, Obama called you. What did he want to know?

Payne: He wanted to know where this camp was that I had helped liberate. I told him that it was Ohrdruf and that it was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I described a little bit of what I had seen.

[Lady Jag]

[MHGinTN]

The discrepancy is easily explained. The person who ghost wrote Dreams for the affirmative action figure didn’t have the names straight and didn’t bother to contact Obowma before sewnding the manuscript to press. Since Obowma has a fogged memory of his past due to drug useage, he just repeats what has been written for him and the Payne name means nothing to him other than to exploit it.

[calex59]

Did the Navy liberate any camps, or sub-camps?

Well, for what it's worth, the Germans didn't keep concentration camps on the water. They were inland and away from the ocean and they had no floating camps for killing Jews. Given all that as evidence I would say the chances of a Navy liberation of any concentration camp were pretty slim.

Just in case you didn't notice I was being sarcastic. The answer is NO, the Navy didn't liberate any concentration camps during WWII.