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Obama Talks of Family's Military Service (Family liberated Auschwitz...Yeahhhhh)
Cbs News ^ | May 26, 2008 | Maria Gavrilovic

Posted on 05/27/2008 11:48:44 AM PDT by PA Engineer

“My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,” he told a small group of veterans here

Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; barackhusseinobama; dnctalkingpoints; fakebutaccurate; leftards; lendmeyourears; obama; obamagaffe; obamalies; obamatruthfile; obambi; phonysoldiers; revisionisthistory; seebs; sovietredarmy; unclejoestalin
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To: Shermy
Is that so?

You don't think he was talking about a great-uncle, do you?

Boy, this tale just keeps evolving.

61 posted on 05/27/2008 12:27:48 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: PA Engineer

So Barak’s family legend says that Uncle Boris Obama spent 6 months in the attic- let’s spend billions on mental health benefits for veterans! Do it for Uncle Boris!

(formerly of the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz)


62 posted on 05/27/2008 12:28:25 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: armymarinemom
So was my Father who was a highly decorated combat engineer in the Ardennes and Rhine campaigns (Patton). I miss my Father, however sometimes I am happy he is not alive to hear this crap from such evil trash. I was very angry when I posted this. Call this post therapy.
63 posted on 05/27/2008 12:28:55 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: PA Engineer
“My grandfather marched in Patton’s army,

Oh, really??

Name, rank and serial number, please

...or is this just more politician's BS, as usual?

64 posted on 05/27/2008 12:29:30 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: PA Engineer
Obama, “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, right. 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,”

“Obama’s American mother was an only child.”

65 posted on 05/27/2008 12:29:45 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: PA Engineer

“Obama also spoke about his uncle, who...” doesn’t really exist unless he served with the Soviet Red Army which liberated Auschwitz.


66 posted on 05/27/2008 12:30:26 PM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: PA Engineer
“My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,”

Zhukov's army maybe.

67 posted on 05/27/2008 12:32:35 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Party ahead of principles; eventually you'll be selling out anything to anyone for the right price.)
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To: weegee
He doesn't exist because Obama’s mother was an only child.
68 posted on 05/27/2008 12:33:14 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: PA Engineer

I wonder if the MSM will report it, since they sure made hay with Hilary’s phony sniper fire story in Bosnia.

Haha! I remember 3 months ago how the Democrats were all laughing about what they thought was their embarrassment of riches - they had two (2)! candidates that everyone in the party loved. Now they are stuck with two BIG liars. ne is a bitter feminist and the other a black power racist, who still has not produced his baptismal record to prove he no longer is a Muslim.


69 posted on 05/27/2008 12:35:08 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Philo-Junius

Looks like you are on top of this story. Let us all know if you find out anything more? Thanks.


70 posted on 05/27/2008 12:37:59 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Centurion2000

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/warspeech.pdf

In his 2002 anti-war speech, Obama said the following:

“My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.”

No mention of Uncle Red...


71 posted on 05/27/2008 12:38:05 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: PA Engineer

The Kenyan first-armored... what an outfit!


72 posted on 05/27/2008 12:38:09 PM PDT by johnny7 (Don't mess with my tag-lines!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

So who was the “he” he was referring to? Does the man even exist? Who is the “uncle”? A friend of the family? An urban legend?


73 posted on 05/27/2008 12:38:17 PM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: rawhide

According to the fox news article linked above, a request for clarification has been put to the Obama campaign.

It’ll probably be another case of something being “taken out of context”.


74 posted on 05/27/2008 12:40:27 PM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: ltc8k6

no mention of Uncle Red and he mentioned Auschwitz in ‘02. He is just an empty suit.


75 posted on 05/27/2008 12:41:59 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: rawhide
If you notice the article doesn't say anything about Obama saying his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz, just the reporter mentioning this is why he was in the attic. Also, This place has the video of it going down and says: LINK

No mention of Auschwitz in this video. Obama didn't talk about his uncle at all. So where did the reporter come up with that entire passage?

Apparently he mentioned something on a side talk after the speech. His words were "one of the first U.S. troops into Auschwitz".. How does that imply that his uncle liberated Auschwitz? I think some reporter made a false association.. we should all take a deep breath and look at the exact words.
76 posted on 05/27/2008 12:42:22 PM PDT by Pawtucket Patriot
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To: ltc8k6

I kinda expect the Obama campaign will come out saying he mispoke and then try to sugar coat the truth. And the MSM will follow this Pied Piper as he plays his tune. They are all (demo)rats being led to a watery grave.


77 posted on 05/27/2008 12:42:47 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: PA Engineer
I need to edit my post. My 15year old daughter alerted me to this. She is very smart so I can't say she represents most children of her age. She just did a family history for school going back four generations. She spent a great deal of effort on the family military history in WWII. I have to give credit where credit is due or I will never hear the end of it. ;-)
78 posted on 05/27/2008 12:44:09 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: ltc8k6

In that speech, he repeatedly says he is against dumb war and then goes on to trash Rove and others on the basis of what they are doing to the middle class. How does he take that personal attack on figures of the Bush administration to justify his assertion that the Iraq war was a “dumb war”?

We’d been waging a continued war with Saddam since 1991. Saddam Hussein repeatedly violated the terms of the peace agreement. Saddam was at war. We took it hot again in 1998. And Bill Clinton said that regardless of who was the next president, they would be left to deal with the issue.

If he is going to make a case, he needs to back it up with facts as to “why” it is a “dumb war” and why the tyranny of Saddam Hussein should have continued and why we should have permitted Saddam to CONTINUE to fund international terrorism (like he was doing in Israel).


79 posted on 05/27/2008 12:45:41 PM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: Pawtucket Patriot
No we shouldn't! The MSM ran with everything Hillary and McCain said and twisted it so they should hold Obama to the same standard, even if he just misspoke.
80 posted on 05/27/2008 12:47:41 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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