But since it's Barack Hussein Obama, it's just a "gaffe". Yes, HIS.
“Innocent mistake” on the part of his campaign is in other words, lies, lies and more lies to further a political agenda that does not include support for any troops of the US variety.
BO, like his party followers, are suffering from some sort of hero psychosis. I know some of them. These people don’t care about truth.
Will Keiff Olbermann ever be able to forgive him for this?
Barry has been making some version of this speech since 2002.
Who told this to you, Barry... your typical, white-person grandma? And, are you making fun of your “great-uncle”... who obviously was suffering from PTSD???
The man is either completely stupid or a compulsive liar. Either way, does anyone want him in charge?
Yea, Auschwitz and Buchenwald do sound a lot alike.
If Barack Tomatoe Obama were Dan Quayle, or any Republican, he would have long ago been marginalized by the media for his many gaffes.
How old was his “great uncle” in 1945? 50 or 60?
So he had to pretend that returning Vets with mental problems did not get help back in the 40's.
Barack is wrong about that, too.
For starters, John Huston made a film about the treatment that was given Vets, called Let There Be Light
Barack has a habit of painting a bleak view of reality, so that he can pose as a savior who will make things better.
*Dumbed Down Ones.
This must not be allowed to rest.
Obama is an ARRANT LIAR and he has now sought to hijack the memory of the Greatest Generation to his cause. Wrongfully.
For Shame.
This is his Swiftboat, if anyone wants to pursue it.
This Pretender must never be permitted to occupy the White House.
I just read that this great-uncle he is talking about served in the Navy. Not sure it is true. It probably is since Obama is a liar.
Was the uncle REALLY in the ARmy??? I read where he was in the NAVY? Has anyone looked into it??
When O’bomber is POTUS lying and falsehoods will be common place. John Kerry will be able to claim all sorts of medals from his exploites in Vietnam. But for now a few laws are in place.
Fake claims of war heroics a federal offense
Ex-soldier fights for medals’ honor
By John Crewdson
Tribune correspondent
11:09 PM CDT, May 27, 2008
Dick Agnew, a retired Army major, was hunting for a parking place at Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport when something stopped him cold.
Agnew had just passed a car bearing a rare Legion of Valor license plate, an honor Texas reserves for its most exalted military heroes.
“I know everybody’s car,” said Agnew, the Legion’s commander for north Texas who received the Distinguished Service Cross in Korea after killing an enemy sentry in hand-to-hand combat despite a broken ankle. “Nobody in our organization has a maroon 2001 Chevy.”
Agnew also recalled spotting a paper cutout of the Navy Cross, the Navy’s second-highest decoration for bravery after the Medal of Honor, taped to the inside of the rear window. With a little detective work, he determined that the car belonged to a screener for the Transportation Security Administration assigned to DFW airport.
Further checking showed the man wasn’t a Legion member, did not hold the Navy Cross and had no right to be sporting the Legion’s license plates.
In the view of many veterans and others, unauthorized use of the Legion’s plates amounts to a slur against actual medal recipients, including some among the nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed and the more than 30,000 wounded in Iraq.
As the bogus Legion members may soon find out, such deceptions entail not only an insult, but a crime. A little-known federal statute imposes criminal penalties on those convicted of falsely claiming to have been awarded a medal of valor.
The law was signed in December 2006, when Congress and President George W. Bush combined to enact what has become known as the “Stolen Valor Act.”
Since then, those who in an earlier era might have been dismissed as barroom blowhards are being brought before the federal courts, convicted, fined and sentenced to prison after suspicious co-workers, former comrades-in-arms or jilted lovers alert authorities.
excerpt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-valormay28,0,4768252.story
Don’t tell me, let me guess: his “uncle” was also under heavy sniper fire.....not to mention he’d have been a very old man at the time he liberated Auschwitz....”I’m-a beat yo’ asses, you Kraut honkies!!!”
Gaffe? GAFFE?
It was his uncle. No, his great-uncle. Who we’ve never heard of before, even when comparable references were made prior. It was his grandfather we heard about before, who heard of the liberation, instead of this [great-]uncle who was there. Or was nearby. He was in the Army, which he joined the day after Pearl Harbor ... no wait it was the Navy he joined six months later. Yeah, he was there at Auchwitz. The Americans liberated that camp ... or was it the Soviets. No wait, it was Buchenwald he was at. Well, a sattellite camp. Yeah he was there. Or he heard about the liberation from soldiers that were there.
Ya know, when _every_ facet of the story is wrong, it ain’t just a “gaffe”.
“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.