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The former Boston Globe columnist broke the tough truth to us on today’s Morning Joe. WaPo editorial writer Jonathan Capehart was “so gla…

The real sad part here is not that he misquoted the name of the death camp, its that the next possible President of this country doesn’t know that we didn’t liberate Auschwitz?

How have we gotten to the point that history is so unimportant that the 50/50 possible next President doesn’t even know what we did in WW2.

What a disgrace.

Vincenzo on May 27, 2008 at 5:19 PM

Rush said Obama may be educated but he’s stupid. He also said Obama probably does not know what Memorial Day is for. I gotta go with Rush on this one.

Obama is scary. He is not the person he wants everyone to believe he is.

The experience of this relative was so deeply ingrained in Sen. Obama’s character and psyche… that he can’t recall who exactly it was or where it happened?

major john on May 27, 2008 at 5:18 PM

Heh

Obama could use a few months in the attic to get his stories straight

CNN and Fox both ran a story on it this past hour, though CNN’s ended with “the story was true…”

BadgerHawk on May 27, 2008 at 6:58 PM

Mrs B and I were out having some BBQ and they had CNN on in the corner. It was a non-stop appology-fest for Obambi.

CNN, like many others, serves effectively as the house organ for the DNC.

Ed how about get his Family “Heritage” correct, much less what he did in WWII. Why do I have this feeling B.H.O. has never spoken to anyone in his family concerning this and it is all half truths. Something isn’t clicking correctly.
upinak on May 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM

Yep.

Hard to believe. Doesn’t his great-uncle get invited to family get-togethers and holiday dinners with the Obamas in Chicago? They must have discussed this numerous times, and they must have a close relationship if Barak used him in a campaign speech.
JiangxiDad on May 27, 2008 at 5:49 PM

Roll over laughing. He’s just one more typical white relative he has thrown under the bus by making private information public (assuming these stories are even true, or just convenient anecdotes). How can we trust you to enforce the HIPPA act, Barry?

Good points. Mitt was basically booted from the running for saying he marched along side Martin Luther King, or his dad did, or he was there in spirit or something, whatever.
Mitt’s gaffe was the headline for at least a day…
NTWR on May 27, 2008 at 6:36 PM

To be precise, Mitt used perfectly acceptable figurative language to say “I saw my father march with Martin Luther King”.

Only in Obama World can you mention death camps and Nazis, and then turn around and paint the US as the bad guys for not providing enough support for veterans.

rw on May 27, 2008 at 5:42 PM

Perfect.

This is known as the Forest Gump Syndrome.

‘Cept, instead of himself, it’s an uncle.

Zaire67

What do you mean, he lacks experience on any issues? But he’s a community organizer…. what ever the hell that is.

Why, because he lacks real experience on any issue.

I think the Prophet Barack’s handlers need to have a little talk with him. Not only does he show his ignorance of history and his own country almost daily, not only does he make himself sound like a nitwit on…

I doubt St. Obama’s gaffe will make it to the nightly news despite the major lack of historical knowledge it so blatantly highlights.

NTWR on May 27, 2008 at 6:36 PM

CNN and Fox both ran a story on it this past hour, though CNN’s ended with “the story was true…”

For 7 years we have heard how stupid our POTUS is. He isn’t capable of speaking, right? He is a liar, right? He can’t keep names straight when speaking, right? It isn’t a simple error, he is an idiot, right?

……

Where am I wrong on this?? I ask again: WIARHSI???????

Mike D. on May 27, 2008 at 5:51 PM

Good points. Mitt was basically booted from the running for saying he marched along side Martin Luther King, or his dad did, or he was there in spirit or something, whatever.

Mitt’s gaffe was the headline for at least a day. I doubt St. Obama’s gaffe will make it to the nightly news despite the major lack of historical knowledge it so blatantly highlights.

Anyway, Frank Gilroy wrote a play called Contact with the Enemy about his experience Ohrdruf Nord as a member of the 89th infantry division.

Obama’s great-uncle: American hero.

Obama himself: hesitant to put on an American flag pin.

Like Ron Reagan (Jr.), proof that greatness is not genetic.

emailnuevo on May 27, 2008 at 5:26 PM

Exactly – we’re forgetting how many men, including great-uncle – not only lost life and limbs, but sacrificed their mental health and preconceptions of human nature after witnessing the depravity that was Germany, and the aftermath that was Japan.

I know that my father, who served in the Greek navy in their intelligence and codebreaking unit, had a nervous breakdown after the war to the point where he could not lift a fork to his mouth to feed himself, such were the nasty and evil and horrible things he saw and heard and experienced.

I wonder if Obama realizes the sacrifice, the determination to get through it locked in an attic somewhere, that his uncle made so he could run for the highest office in the land and discount his own grandmother.

If Obama’s knowledge of Europe was a little deeper, even if he forgot the details, it might occur to him that a place name that ends in “witz” is probably East of Germany, and a place name that ends in “wald” is more likely a place in Germany, where Americans arrived first.

RBMN on May 27, 2008 at 6:04 PM

It’s not that it was or wasn’t a gaffe. It’s that he has no historical knowledge, and therefore no historical context upon which to evalauate…well anything important.

I doubt that he really has basic knowledge of the way WWII evolved.

Blaise on May 27, 2008 at 6:10 PM

All he need to know know was that Auschwitz was in Poland and to quickly remember that Poland was part of the Warsaw Pact. Those two facts alone would tell him who liberated Auschwitz. He wouldn’t even need to recall the geography.

But, he did forget that the USSR, the UK and the USA were allies back then, assuming that he ever knew that.

Obama’s got a lifetime Doofus Pass from the MSM that crucified Quayle for one mis-spelling.

Typical white people to be running around liberating prisoners.

They should have just talked to Hitler instead.

Right Barry?