Posted on 06/01/2009 5:00:02 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
President Obama's scheduled visit to a former Nazi concentration camp is being done for "political reasons," the president's great-uncle -- who helped liberate that camp -- said in a recent interview.
Obama plans to visit Germany's Buchenwald site as part of his multi-country tour, which begins this week.
Charles Payne, Obama's great-uncle who helped liberate a sub-camp of Buchenwald during World War II, spoke frankly about the visit in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine.
Asked if Obama would be traveling in his footsteps, Payne said: "I don't buy that. ... This is a trip that he chose, not because of me I'm sure, but for political reasons."
He said Obama also might be trying to improve his "standing" with Chancellor Angela Merkel, since "she gave him a hard time during his campaign and also afterwards."
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Just a typical white guy, I guess.
Mods, could we move this to breaking news?
LOL beat me to it.
Sorry Charlie. No seat on Air Force One for you.
Watch your back. You might develop “health issues” and be confined to a guarded apartment where you can talk to no one.
“...Chancellor Angela Merkel, since “she gave him a hard time during his campaign and also afterwards.”
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Sorry I missed that.
She undoubtedly gave him a much harder time than John McCain (D-Arizona), did.
I guess BO wants to see how a successful concentration camp is run before he starts the same over here.
Our very own Hitler in the making is curious about concentration camps. Go figure.
LOL!!
Everything he does is for political and agenda reasons.
And maybe somebody had an axe to grind. Who knows?
He wants to know how it's done.
Is he a great-uncle by blood or by marriage?
If it’s by blood, have we just found a person with a common ancestor with a dim enough view of Obama to file a request for the long-form birth certificate?
However, it seems Charlie knows his nephew well, and that he considers him an opportunist, not a statesman. Family always knows best.
Which is why Obama saw to it that his grandmother never spoke about the whereabouts of Obama's birth in a way that could be pinpointed. There is a huge family cover-up of that child's birth and for some reason the family was embarassed by it long ago and never could come clean with the truth because of their own personal reasons. Obama probably didn't know the story until he was an adult, and so he has wanted to perpetuate this falsehood himself. Lies, lies, and more lies.
During the campaign, Obama told a story about his "uncle," Charles Payne's, WW II experiences to burnish his all-American upbringing. But Obama made a gaffe when he said his great uncle liberated Auschwitz. Well, Russian troops liberated Auschwitz, so the story changed that Payne was part of the force that liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in April 1945.
Well, this story wasn't a gaffe. It was a lie, on top of a lie, on top of a lie.
Records show that a Payne, C. T. served as a private with Company K, 355th Infantry Regiment, 89th Infantry Division, during World War II. The C.T. Payne listed on the roster of the 89th Infantry Division is NOT a relative of Obama.
Madelyn Dunham's brother was named Charles "W." Payne, not Charles "T." Payne. Genealogy records show that his grandmother Madelyn only had one brother, Charles W., and a sister Arlene. Charles W. was born to Rolla Charles Payne and Leona McCurry (nee) in 1924.
Not only that, It seems that "Uncle Charles" was in the Navy. Payne, Charles W., enlisted in the US Navy on November 10, 1942, at Board #4, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas. His US Navy serial number was 6293977.
There was a Charles T. Payne in the family. He was Obama's great great grandfather. He joined the military just after Pearl Harbor amid the fear and confusion on a "60 and over" enlistment that was meant to be defense at home. However, he also joined the US Navy. Payne, Charles T., enlisted on December 13, 1942, also at Board #4, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas. His US Navy serial number was 3427439.
Charles T. Payne was born in 1861. He would have been 81 years old, and totally unacceptable for active duty in the infantry -- he is not the C.T. Payne of the 89th.
I hope Zer0 tribal escort knows that German electricity is different than WDC or Hawaii but not Kenya. My concern is that without intervention, his teleprompters won’t work. Tehe!
Possibly he is going to examine and study the architecture and effectiveness of such camps for 21st century implementation in America for the coming Pogrom against Conservatives.
Just saw part one of this Payne story on Hannity’s show. Not the part that he is the wrong Charles Payne.
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