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History buff President Barack Obama flunks World War II knowledge test
The Australian ^ | 5/9/2009 | Ben Macintyre

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: history; obama; ww2; wwii
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Was Clinton a better liar?
1 posted on 05/08/2009 5:37:32 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: GVnana

Teleprompter ignorance....Barack is a “history buff” as much as I am a motorcycle afficiando....nada


2 posted on 05/08/2009 5:39:37 PM PDT by goodnesswins (WE have a REPUBLIC.....IF we can KEEP IT!!!)
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To: GVnana

Klinton was the master liar.


3 posted on 05/08/2009 5:39:46 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: GVnana

lol


4 posted on 05/08/2009 5:39:52 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Lady Thatcher)
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To: GVnana
Unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there's no way Obama's statement can be true

I seem to remember the Red Army had a Kenyan corps.

5 posted on 05/08/2009 5:39:52 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: GVnana

Depends on what the meaning of ‘was’, is.


6 posted on 05/08/2009 5:40:20 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: GVnana
Unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there's no way Obama's statement can be true

Well maybe it was true.

7 posted on 05/08/2009 5:40:23 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (What fresh hell is this?)
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To: GVnana

What’s sad is thanks to the state of public education most folks would swallow the lie whole.


8 posted on 05/08/2009 5:41:42 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: GVnana
Let's keep this in perspective.

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.

9 posted on 05/08/2009 5:46:21 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The most dangerous fascists are those with a warm smile and soothing voice.)
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To: GVnana

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.


10 posted on 05/08/2009 5:46:48 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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To: GVnana

It was 0bama’s Uncle Joe Stalin.


11 posted on 05/08/2009 5:46:55 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
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To: GVnana

Libtards ARE, apparently, entitled to their own facts.


12 posted on 05/08/2009 5:47:12 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: GVnana

Which Clinton? Both of them have been caught.


13 posted on 05/08/2009 5:48:34 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Government tends to never fix the problems it creates in the first place)
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To: GVnana

But Zero has Biden as backup. Oh wait...nevermind.


14 posted on 05/08/2009 5:49:37 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: GVnana

The IS NO history....except what Dear Leader decides IS history. And you know it will include ‘ALL ABOUT HIM’.


15 posted on 05/08/2009 5:49:39 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: GVnana

“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?


16 posted on 05/08/2009 5:51:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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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...


17 posted on 05/08/2009 5:57:21 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: GVnana

WWII is a hot history topic in madrassas.

Well, the Final Solution part is anyway.


18 posted on 05/08/2009 6:08:32 PM PDT by combat_boots (When the government controls the captial, all that is left is tyranny. Tagline by Redwarning.)
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To: GVnana

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.


19 posted on 05/08/2009 6:16:18 PM PDT by Larry381 ("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
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IMO, unless the American public takes the means necessary to remove this Marxist from office, our cherished Republic will be well on its way to second-rate status as a sadly replicated page in the history books.

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!

20 posted on 05/08/2009 6:27:55 PM PDT by dk/coro
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