Following In a Long Liberal Tradition
Barack Obama has proven to be very prone to misstatements. You wouldn’t know that reading the Agenda Media’s articles. This time, he won’t be so fortunate. This time refers to Obama’s stating that his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz:
Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six months in an attic. “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 said. “That’s why this idea of making sure that every single veteran, when they are discharged, are screened for post-traumatic stress disorder and given the mental health services that they need – that’s why it’s so important.”
This is utterly laughable. Ace of Spades is all over this:
Auschwitz of course is in Poland. It was liberated by the Red Army on Jan 27 1945. Poland, on most maps is usually placed to the east of Germany, although we may need to investigate the geography textbooks the Messiah used as a child…
The Allies were wrapping up the battle of the bulge in late January of 1945; the Rhine crossings were still well into the future when Auschwitz was liberated. The first, the Remagen railway bridge which was discovered intact, was crossed on March 7 1945.
Of course it goes without saying that the media has thus far failed to call the Messiah on this apparently obviously outrageous lie. Unless Obama’s “uncle” was serving in the Red Army, its a pretty safe bet he was many hundreds of miles from Auschwitz on its day of liberation.
By saying this, Sen. Obama is following in a time-tested tradition within the Democratic Party’s upper crust. Obama’s story that his uncle liberated Auschwitz isn’t dramatically different than Bill Clinton recoiling when he heard of black churches burning, Hillary’s being named after Sir Edmund Hillary or the memories “seared…seared” in John Kerry’s memory that he was in Cambodia on orders from President Nixon on Christmas, 1968.
Sen. Obama’s uncle didn’t help liberate Auschwitz. Bill Clinton didn’t remember black churches burning. Hillary was born years before Sir Edmund Hillary scaled Everest. Kerry wasn’t illegally in Cambodia at the orders of “President Nixon” on Christmas, 1968 because Nixon wasn’t inaugurated as president until January, 1969.
Sen. Obama is the ultimate empty suit. In addition to claiming that his uncle helped liberate Auschwitz, he also made a major gaffe during his Memorial Day speech:
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Memorial Day is when we memorialize soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Hopefully, someone can explain the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day before that holiday rolls around. Here’s what Wiki says about Memorial Day:
Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who perished while in military service to their country.
Compare that with what Wiki says about Veterans Day:
Veterans Day is an American holiday honoring military veterans.
Sen. Obama is proving on a nearly daily basis that he knows next to nothing about America, whether we’re talking about American history or American foreign policy. I’ve seen liberal presidential candidates before. I’m used to the things they’ve said. Sen. Obama goes well beyond the usual vapidity, though. As the Lady Logician says, “I think he’s just out-Tuzla’d Hillary.” I couldn’t agree more.
Technorati Tags: Obama, Auschwitz, Bill Clinton, Black Churches, Hillary Clinton, Sir Edmund Hillary, John Kerry, Cambodia, Nixon, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, World War II
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
May 27th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
This of course is what happens when you minimize and dumb down the teaching of History to where someone like Suzan B Anthony or the womens right to vote movement, inspiring though they be, are elevated to the point of shadowing Gen. Omar Bradly or World War II. I doubt if half the junior people in journalism these days even know much about the Nazi death camps except a few names, much less who liberated which ones. There were only 2 death camps: Chelmo and Birkenau-Auschwitz, both in Poland and liberated by the Russians.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Correction 4 death camps; I overlooked Sobibor and Treblenka, but again all in Poland. My apologies to any survivors.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Ten years older than the obammy and his education went that far downhill? HMMMMMM
I guess it wasn’t taught at the madrassa or in the ivy league. I learned about it in the sixth grade in Helena, Montana. But, then again, I do have ten years on the dirtbag.
The Retired Petty Officer is allowed to address him as dirtbag.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
You certainly are! Even if you are an airdale. :>)
May 28th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Now, here’s an interesting topic, that frankly conservatives in general and republicans in specific should be simply ashamed, and yet here you are, using it for political purposes. Wait, I forgot, conservatives have no shame.
First, Sen. Obama made a simple error and named the wrong camp, saying “Auschwitz” instead of the accurate “Ohrdruf” which was a sub-camp of Buchenwald. Wow, Obama mistakes the names of concentration camps, and you’re all ready to toss him overboard! Were you only so stringent on the current preznit!
But what makes this whole silly argument offensive is that it was conservatives in the United States that aided and abetted Hitler’s efforts to exterminate the Jewish race. You’d think the fact that Bush crime family ties with Hitler would be avoided by conservatives, but what the heck, let’s open that can of worms!
(And, TA and the retired dirtbag-namer(s), why don’t you all go read about the death camps before you go showing off your ignorance.)
May 28th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Not even the ADL is touching the Bush-Nazi connections.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Try explaining why Sen. Obama sais this in a 2002 speech:
The least Sen. Obama can do is stick with a story if he’s gonna lie. Switching stories isn’t a smart thing.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:24 am
UM, .. I admitted my ignorance, Rocky, and Im not running for anything.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Mr. Rocky sir, when making allegations regarding the guilt and political complicity of others, those of us in the “dirtbag namer” community have learned that it’s wise to make sure your own backyard is clean.
Im sure you are also aware of a certain liberal icon that might have been very comfortable in the company of Hitler and Himmler.
http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
May 29th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Oh, how näive of me; I thought we were discussing fact, not going for a sail on the swift boats. I see, now… this is all an attempt to paint Sen. Obama as somehow weak militarily. Well, good luck. As Sen. Obama said some time ago, if you want to debate military service and know-how, bring it on.
Approximately 70% of the American people want out of Iraq, and no posturing and needling by McSame or any republican will change that fact. I certainly hope that Obama does not fall for McSame’s “come to Iraq” challenge, risking our troops lives as they are compelled to protect senators who bumble their way through open markets (how many troops did McSame need on one of his wasteful trips through Baghdad? 150?)
Of course, we can dissect every word that comes from Sen. Obama’s mouth in an effort to catch him in slight conflicts and discrepancies, and I guess that is a good pastime for the rightwingnuts (so please, continue). Sen. Obama can swat the pesky gnats on the right away with as little effort as this kerfuffle, and get on with winning the race and shortly, governing.
And so, to answer Gary Gross’ question, if Sen. Obama made a mistake regarding his uncle or grandfather and their service to this nation, so be it. It neither detracts from their service nor reflects poorly on Sen. Obama, but rather, serves to show that the right will stoop to new lows (not that that is a surprise) in an effort to discredit the Democratic nominee-in-waiting. Good try; perhaps you could come up with something substantive?
To the dirtbag-naming-brigade, what does Margaret Sanger have to do with Sen. Obama? The last I checked, Sanger was not in the first family tree (following my line of reasoning vis-a-vis Prescott Bush), and although she had some far-out ideas regarding eugenics and forced sterilizations, these tenets are as far from today’s abortion argument as possible. Has your mind become so cluttered with rightwingnut detritus that you can’t cope? Try making even a tenuous link between your arguments or you face revealing yourself as just another partisan hack.
And finally, TA, here’s your first hint: there were more than four Nazi death camps.
‘Nuf said.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Rant and rave all you want, you obviously know f-ing well what Sanger was all about or you wouldn’t have pissed all over yourself just now trying to separate her from Obama. I only pointed out she was a skeleton in the liberal closet.
You have another likeness to Nazi’s - fanaticism.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:10 am
OK, Rock, you win the pissing contest, pin a gold star on your forehead.
Doesnt change the point that your guy is a one man gaff machine, trying to make himself what he isnt.
Little entertainmenmt for ya’ -
Barak Hussein Obama - 50 Lies and Counting:
- Elections and Campaigns -
1.) “Selma Got Me Born” - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma, Alabama had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
2.) “Father Was A Goat Herder” - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) “Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter” - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) “My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom” - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.
5.) “My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian” - LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5:00 AM according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of the 14 wives of 1 man.
6.) “My Name is African Swahili” - LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) “I Never Practiced Islam” - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) “My School In Indonesia Was Christian” - LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Quranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
9.) “I Was Fluent In Indonesian” - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) “Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience” - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons?
11.) “I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs” - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) “I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion” - LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.) “An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office” - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
14.) “A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life” - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
15.) “I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08″ - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) “Present Votes Are Common In Illinois” - LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) “Oops, I Misvoted” - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your mis-vote.
18.) “I Was A Professor Of Law” - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) “I Was A Constitutional Lawyer” - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) “Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill” - LIAR, you didn’t write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) “The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass” - LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) “I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill” - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) “I Have Released My State Records” - LIAR, as of May, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) “I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess” - LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) “My Economics Bill Will Help America” - LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) “I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois” - LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) “I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year” - LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) “No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA” - LIAR, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) “I Am Tough On Terrorism” - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.
30.) “I Am Not Acting As President Yet” - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
31.) “I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida” - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) “I Won Michigan” - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) “I won Nevada” - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) “I Want All Votes To Count” - LIAR, you said let the super-delegates decide.
35.) “I Want Americans To Decide” - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
36.) “I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate” - LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) “My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend” - LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.
38.) “I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics” - LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) “I Don’t Take PAC Money” - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) “I don’t Have Lobbyists” - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
41.) “My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad” - LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) “My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace” - LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) “I Inspire People With My Words” - LIAR, you inspire people with other people’s words.
44.) “I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate” - LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) “I Have Always Been Against Iraq” - LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) “I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care” - LIAR, your plan leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) “I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail” - LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.
48.) “I Am As Patriotic As Anyone” - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) “My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country” - LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and Farrakhan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) “Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support” - LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quarter of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
April 12th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Great article as usual, thank you for posting such helpful content on a regular basis.