The campaign specified 89th Infantry Division, so they’d better hurry up and substantiate that. Of course, now they run into the tricky issue that it’s not up to Obama to release any service records, etc. - it involves the privacy of an 84 year old family relation who may not appreciate having been dragged into this - will Charlie Payne, who is alive IIRC, have to get involved in clearing this up or will he tell the Obama campaign to shove off?
It would be incredible if they pulled that out of thin air or off the web, but then they have shown that they are not a very professional organization. Still, as critical as I am of Obama, I would be astonished if they released the specifics about 89th ID and a sub-camp of Buchenwald and “Charlie Payne” was never even there. That would be an unbelievable whopper, even for them. Surely they know at this point some people are going to keep checking, digging, pushing. They’d better try to put this to rest soon.
Well you are right that Obama is unlikely to provide documentation. As I understand it, he refuses even to release his birth certificate, although that would seem to be a necessary part of the public record to demonstrate that he is constitutionally qualifed to run for president.
I’d also love to see his baptismal certificate. He has said that he is a “member” of Rev. Wright’s church, but that “church” curiously does not require its members to be baptized. So, was Obama ever even a Christian, under the normally accepted meaning of the term? I am not sure if he has explicitly said so, although the press often repeats it, since it might raise difficult issues of Islam and apostasy.