Posted on 05/27/2008 5:43:30 PM PDT by 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.
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That should read “...both FULL of it!”
But this guy would have been from the same racist side of the Obama family tree as the grandmother he threw under the bus.
The Herald Sun’s headline is misleading. Obama is as good a liar as Hillary.
LOL! Good one! Obama’s Uncle Joe.
WE have acultural misunderstanding.
In Australia, the term “doing a Hitlery/BJ/Pelosi/whoever” means replicating that person’s actions.
I was wondering the same thing... which side of the family did this famous uncle come from... The White grandmothers. or the father in Kenya?
Give the man a break...he was tired from dodging bitter snipers who cling to their guns and religion throughout 57 states!
For some reason this reminds me of an episode of a sitcom called "The Office" wherein the dorky, obnoxious character named Dwight is defending his family's honor in response to some slight aimed at it by his nemesis, Jim.
Dwight looks into the camera and says, "My grandfather was a World War II hero. He fought bravely until he was captured and spent the rest of the war in an Allied prisoner-of-war camp."
I do get a kick out of that show. Now that I think of it, this whole campaign seems like one big sitcom. But the funniest writers in Hollyweird couldn't possibly come up with some of this stuff.
God's favorite show must be "The Earth".
of many, my dear!
ROFLMAO!
How about history shows Soviet troops freed the camp?
Obama sees dead people. Is he casting for “Sixth Sense - II?”
His family kept a crazy uncle in the attic. Who else is in their closets?
He doesn’t listen to his Reverend’s sermons.
His wife - well...
He flip-flops like John Kerry on a hot griddle.
His Weather Underground friends are not the only ones who bombed.
What next, “The US attacked Japan on Dec. 7, 1942?”
“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life”.
The issue seems to me to be that Obama, given his friends and associates, has never sat around swapping stories of family military service and benefits from the American dream.
He's an ideologue. His condemnation of ne'er-do-well American bigots clinging to Bibles and guns, his condemnation of our consumption, his condemnation of the effects of military service -- these are the stuff of Obama. These are the issues. IMO.
I want his people to do some 'splainin' about these issues.
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