Obama's Great-Uncle Says President Visiting Concentration Camp Site for 'Political Reasons'

Foxnews ^ | 6/1/2009 | Staff

[rodguy911]

Absolutely everything barky's teleprompter tells him to do is designed to buy votes or influece events in his direction; left,socialist.

Like dissing the britts over and over shameless.

[dervish]

Obviously before you support the next ‘Hitler’ in their aspirations to wipe out the Jewish people, you want to see how it was done.

Obama’s blatant suck up to American Jews to cover up his blame Israel and twist their arm policy is disgusting.

As for American Jews, the 70+% that voted for him seem to favor dead Jews to live ones too.

[Dustbunny]

Who cares what the white uncle of the half white president is doing!

[Chief Engineer]

Here is the picture of Madelyn Dunham’s youngest brother Jack aka Jon when the famly made the across America tour during Jr’s 11th or 1th year and Stanley Armour remained in HI. This picture was taken in Chicago and the picture includes Ann, Jr and Jon in his long hair days in the background drinking a bottle of beer.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040486/posts?q=1&;page=6001

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Since you say you have never seen the picture before you had better save it for your collection!

[Chief Engineer]

Here is the picture of Madelyn Dunham’s youngest brother Jack aka Jon when the famly made the across America tour during Jr’s 11th or 1th year and Stanley Armour remained in HI. This picture was taken in Chicago and the picture includes Ann, Jr and Jon in his long hair days in the background drinking a bottle of beer.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040486/posts?q=1&;page=6001

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Since you say you have never seen the picture before you had better save it for your collection!

[Fred Nerks]

thanks, it must have taken hours to find again, good to have the link to the article as well.

SOURCE LINK

[BP2]

Here's another shot of the same photo that ran with a story during the campaign:

Does this cross-country bus trip in the Summer (most likely when BHO would have been on Summer vacation) of either 1972 or 1973 jive with your timelines? This is from the Obama Timeline on Colony 14:

Dunham leaves Lolo Soetoro in 1972 (possibly due to heavy drinking and womanizing) and returns briefly to Hawaii.

I was unaware of such a trip ... and wonder if there were any other sightings.

Obama’s Arizona Ties

Sahuarita resident Jon Payne, left, plays a friendly game of darts with his niece Ann Dunham and her son Barack Obama. The photo was taken in Overland Park, KS, in the early 1970’s when Obama was 11 or 12 years old, Payne said.

By Jaime Richardson | Green Valley News

Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:42 PM MDT

Barack Obama’s great-uncle, Sahuarita resident Jon Payne, says the past few months have been a “surreal experience” for him and his family.

“Sometimes it’s hard to believe this is all really happening, and I just have to snap myself back to reality.”

Payne, 70, a retired urban planner originally from Wichita, Kan., has lived in Rancho Sahuarita with his wife, Sue, since 2004. His 86-year-old sister, Madeline Payne Dunham, is Obama’s maternal grandmother, who helped raise him as a child.

Payne is just four years older than Obama’s mother, Ann, and says the two were very close growing up.

“She was a wonderful lady, and she would have been very proud of her son,” he said.

Obama was 11 or 12 years old when he, his mother and half-sister took a bus trip across the country with their grandmother and stopped in Kansas to visit the family. This was the first time they met, says Payne, who described the young Obama as a “bright young man” who was “very personable and outgoing.”

Photos from this time show Jon, Ann and Barack smiling and laughing as they play a game of darts, the 2008 presidential candidate’s bright smile instantly recognizable in the snapshot taken more than 35 years ago.

Payne isn’t too close with Obama, who grew up mainly in Hawaii and Indonesia. But his sister and her late husband took him in at the age of 10, raising him in their Honolulu home until his graduation from high school. Obama affectionately calls her “toot,” short for “tutu,” the Hawaiian word for grandparent.

Payne says Madeline now suffers from osteoporosis and other serious health problems. She underwent surgery for corneal implants a year ago, “which is a big undertaking for someone who’s 86,” he said.

“We think it’s because she wanted to be able to see the T.V. — so she could see Barack.”

Payne has spoken to the Democratic Club of the Santa Rita Area several times and has participated in rallies held in Tucson and Green Valley in support of his great-nephew, but insists he’s no politician.

“The family here in America has tried to keep a low profile and not say anything that would have a negative effect on Barack or his campaign. We all fully support him and wish him well.”

But he says that their pride in Obama’s accomplishments is combined with as serious concern for his safety.

“Barack and his family are living a very high profile lifestyle, and we’re worried about all the crazies out there,” he said, citing Tuesday’s arrest of four men at the Democratic National Convention connected to an assassination plot.

In spite of the challenges that may lay ahead for the candidate, Payne hopes that Obama will win the election.

“We just can’t go on the way we have been,” he said. “I think he’s the best option we’ve got for some real change in this country.”

jrichardson@gvnews.com | 547-9726

[BP2]

The bus trip to Kansas is not in the “Google Timeline” either...

Google Timeline

The University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Stanley Ann Dunham:

Dates of attendance:
Fall 1960 (First day of instruction 9/26/1960)
Spring 1963 - Summer 1966
Fall 1972 - Fall 1974
Summer 1976
Spring 1978
Fall 1984 - Summer 1992

Nothing showing up online for Maya Soetoro, as a 2-3 year old Indonesian citizen, going on a cross-country bus trip going through Kansas with her mother and brother, either...

[Beckwith]

Re: Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army

The political left were big fans of Hitler — until he invaded the Soviet Union.

[Homer1]

just a cover story to establish the original lie.

[maggief]

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/27/obama-campaign-acknowledges-concentration-camp-name-mistake/

May 27th, 2008

Obama campaign acknowledges concentration camp name mistake

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) — Barack Obama’s presidential campaign Tuesday corrected remarks the candidate made a day earlier during a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico, when he said an uncle had been among the troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz at the end of World War II.

Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, which was in Poland. But American troops liberated several other concentration camps, including Ohrdruf, one of 174 sub-camps of the Buchenwald camp near Weimar, Germany.

It was Ohrdruf, the Obama campaign said, that the Illinois senator’s great uncle helped liberate in April 1945, serving with the 89th Infantry Division.

Obama had been advocating better care for veterans who experience post-traumatic stress syndrome when he made the faulty reference.

“I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps and the story in our family is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months,” Obama said. “Now obviously something had really affected him deeply but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain.”

Jon Payne, Obama’s maternal great uncle, told CNN that his older brother Charles returned from the war with photographs of concentration camps but did not want to talk about his experiences. Payne, 71, said he was unsure if his brother — who is 83 and still living in Chicago — took the photographs himself.

[null and void]

I hope he was there for political reasons.

I fear he was there for inspiration.

[null and void]

That’s a dead issue. Nobody is going to think badly of Obama for pulling strings for his poor old aunt.

Indeed, we'd think ill of him if he didn't!

[null and void]

I agree. On the other hand, he has a brother living in a shack in Kenya and we aren’t aware of him helping him.

And I think less of him for that...

[potlatch]

[And I think less of him for that... ]

I know nully, we all did. It is possible his brother is being compensated in some way that we don’t know about.

[potlatch]

He looks good on that background. I put him on a fiery one and he didn’t stand out!

[devolve]

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That one was not TP

I tried various blend and overlay options and degrees of blending to get that effect

I must have gone through 20 or more tries before I liked the results

[potlatch]

Yes, it takes a lot of tries sometimes. I learned to copy and paste my computer url after the first time so I can go faster. Don’t go there often.

[rodguy911]

Just a little visit from barks’y ol buddy Pinocchio!He will get a lot of them!