Posted on 05/28/2008 5:40:19 AM PDT by Merrittk
What Obama's campaign released via first link above states he served in the Infantry. I assume it's possible the records are wrong, or he changed branches. But I'm unaware of that as a standard practice. Perhaps it happened during WWII for manpower reasons? Otherwise, Obama's Great Uncle would seem to have done most of his marching and liberating while at sea.
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Is he still up in Barry’s attic ?
They can fix that. NP
It is likely that this Obama Lad is an arrant LIAR and a Valor Thief. It is crass and wrong for him to abuse the memory of those who served in this manner.
This issue is his SwiftBoat.
Nobama is a shuck and jive artist plain and simple
Who exactly is this relative whom he called an “Uncle”? His grandfather’s brother? Some neighbor needing a home? His mom was an only child and his father was a Kenyan Arab.
Swift-boated?
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I was wondering when someone was going to start calling him out as a jive turkey. A liar of the first order.
I’d like to see a “Stop Jivin” shirt akin to the “Stop Snitchin” shirts.
Maybe someone will start a “STOP Jivin” stop sign sticker campaign. Obama has already gone on record in his letter to street warfare poster artist Shepherd Fairey that he finds sticker campaigns on stop signs to be profound and thought provoking.
Who does Obama think he is? Hillary?
Whats that? Not Aushwitz but Buchenwald?
Whats that? He was in the Navy?
Geez Hussein Obama? Anything else?
Mark my words, before this is all over, it will be a friend of the family (to remain nameless to protect his privacy) who they all considered to be an uncle.
So. My uncle served at the Waldorf, but that doesn’t make me a salad.
Well done.
He thinks he’s a Stalinist. As was Saddam HUSSEIN.
And not particularly good at it, either. 'Course, he does have a media that just loves him dearly. So, nothing he says, no matter how far his foot goes into his mouth, will be remotely scrutinized by anyone sitting behind a teleprompter.......
That's quite Astoria......
“This issue is his SwiftBoat.”
How so? He’s been caught in numerous lies already and his supporters don’t care. Dennis Prager made a statement on his radio show that puts this in line. The left doesn’t care about his inexperience, lies, ignorant policies, anti-Americanism, muslim background and so on adnauseum.
They support him because he’s a leftist and furthers their socialist ideals. They are buying his story just like the ignorant have always bought the ideas of the socialists. Further the leftist power base supports him because he will be easily controlled.
Wonder if the ENEMEDIA will REPORT this tidbit!!!
A typical white-person...
Found this, don’t know how to post addresses...
http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=510002550
Believe it or not, the left has a discussion going on about this same subject, scroll down into the replies:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/28/02342/3539
WHOA!!! How’d I do that? I’m impressed!!!
Kerry’s supporters didn’t care either.
...until someone hammered on the character flaw hard & long enough that they had to care.
Yuk, yuk....
Leni
Remembering my military days - and the troubles we had with records - I think there’s a reasonable possibility Obama is right about his great uncle serving in the Army.
The problem here is that we are thinking “Army” in the white, euro-centric model of word meaning. Barak, he-whose-full-name-must-never-be-uttered, meant something much more inclusive, hopeful, and tolerant when he said “Army”. It’s 2008 and time you crackers got out of the corn patch!
> How so? He’s been caught in numerous lies already and his supporters don’t care.
But we do. We owe that to the Greatest Generation and to their memory. And to History.
No way does he get to hijack History in this manner. No way in Texas. No way.
Obama: How GrandPa Saved The JewsInteresting. If you follow political news, there's one demographic Obama has been courting relatively unsuccessfully - the Jewish vote.
So, suddenly his Grandfather helped to liberate Auschwitz?? Even though it was liberated by the Soviets?
Has the Oba-messiah been getting such a pass from the media, he thinks he can actually say anything to win votes and get away with it?
What a buffoon he's turning out to be.
Snopes claimed for years the same thing, that perhaps Hillary’s MOM lied to her about the origin of her name.
So, when his “uncle” got back from WWII he went right up to his attic. My dad told me,when he returned from WWII he went right to the local beer joint in his hometown of Albany,N.Y. He said he stayed there for three days. He was just a typical white person.
Does Barack Have an Uncle and Did He Liberate Auschwitz?
It wasn't his uncle (old version).
It was his great uncle (new version).Maybe it really wasn't a blood relative/uncle, but more like The Rev Wright, whom he considered an uncle.
[It is curious that Obama manages to pull relatives — from his mother's side, the white side — out from under the bus, when he needs them, usually to on issues related to war, military service, patriotism.]
“Kerry’s supporters didn’t care either.
...until someone hammered on the character flaw hard & long enough that they had to care.”
I’m not suggesting we stop hammering him. I just think the majority of his suporters don’t care. They aren’t electing a president they are electing their messiah.
Perhaps we can get a few of the middle folks though. Our options stink but you play with the cards dealt.
” How so? He’s been caught in numerous lies already and his supporters don’t care. Dennis Prager made a statement on his radio show that puts this in line. The left doesn’t care about his inexperience, lies, ignorant policies, anti-Americanism, muslim background and so on adnauseum.”
The left does care about his anti-Americanism; that is why they are supporting him.
Not neccessarily, I am not saying Obama is a trustworthy individual, but navy corpmen routinely are with marines... infantry on the other hand I don’t know.
Just because someone is in the Navy doesn’t mean they don’t see combat/action inland.
“But we do. We owe that to the Greatest Generation and to their memory. And to History.”
I’m not suggesting we let it slide. I’m suggesting the only people that care are those that are already against him.
Pasting addresses:
It works that way sometimes. I find if you paste an address and do not add anything else after it, it will auto link.
Though, sometimes it does not work, then you’ll have to manually link to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV1sxq8mqvA
The folks at MAD TV and Saturday Night Live have a gold mine of jokes off from the Jr. Senator from Illinois.
Yeah my Uncle... no no I mean my GREAT Uncle yeah, yeah that's the ticket, my GREAT Uncle...
“The left does care about his anti-Americanism; that is why they are supporting him.’
I stand corrected. Ah for the good ole days when treason was actually prosecuted.
> I’m not suggesting we let it slide. I’m suggesting the only people that care are those that are already against him.
Our task is therefore to MAKE ‘EM care. That won’t be easy. But it will be necessary.
It is a debt that we owe the Greatest Generation. If they could storm ashore at Normandie, or take the hill at Iwo Jima, or beat the Hun during the Battle of Britain, or die in bleeding batches at Dieppe, we can surely do this for them.
No way does Obama get a pass on this outrage. No way.
But why did the “uncle” who wasn't really family go to Obama’s family's attic? Shouldn't he have gone to his own family's attic?
Was it his ‘crazy uncle’ revrund wright?
Your shell game analogy is outstanding!
Now THAT’S funny.
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