RSSBarack Obama’s Gaffe-o-meter … Auschwitz, Buchenwald … Uncle, Great Uncle … What’s the Difference
Barack Obama … a typical politician … lie, lie, lie, spin, spin, spin.
Here is the big picture. If a candidate so confuses named, stories and events during a campaign … what does America think they would do as President?
Barack Obama has done it yet again, although this time its hard to believe that he mis-spoke. This was a clear embellishment of the truth. In a Memorial Day speech where Obama stated as he pandered to the veterans in the audience that his uncle was among those who liberated Auschwitz. Really? Was Obama’s uncle a member of the Russian Red Army? Of course, its just a technicality that Obama does not have an uncle, but a great uncle instead.
One would think that when talking to military veterans on Memorial Day that one could get their facts correct. However, not when one is overzealous in their pandering to vets and making a pathetic and lame appeal to the Jewish vote. One really must now question everything that comes out of Obama’s mouth. No one wanted to ever vet the chosen one, Barack Obama. Now it looks like that will come home to haunt Democrats.
The Obama camp was quick to jump in and admit that their candidate mis-spoke. What is most amazing is that Obama was put forth to the voters as the anti-Hillary Clinton. He was a straight shooting and trust worthy. Between his associations with terrorists, sitting in the pews for 20 years and listening to Reverend Wright and his what seems to be a gaffe a day comments, its is hard to even imagine that he is not just like Hillary. Obama’s latest embellishment ranks right up there with Hillary Clinton’s claim that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mount Everest.
Barack Obama is a Harvard educated graduate who passes himself off as an educated individual. I would have thought much more from an Ivy League scholar to have known the difference between Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Here is what Obama said, while talking about post-traumatic stress disorder afflicting veterans, per NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC’s Lauren Appelbaum: “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 was is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months, right.
Q and O: Two for Tuesday – rewriting military history
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Sorry, but the smear campaigns against Barrack don’t change my mind at all about him. He has my vote!!!
Barack Obama is suddenly very proud the White side of his family … a postion that he has not always held or … is he just being “pretty darn good politician”.
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Obama Campaign Scrambles to Correct the Record on Uncle’s War Service
by FOXNews.com
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
“Senator Obama’s family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II — especially the fact that his great uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/27/recollection-of-obama-familys-service-missing-key-details/#comment-385343
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Transcript Of Obama’s Wesleyan Commencement Address
POSTED: 12:43 pm EDT May 25, 2008
But during my first two years of college, perhaps because the values my mother had taught me – hard work, honesty, empathy – had resurfaced after a long hibernation; or perhaps because of the example of wonderful teachers and lasting friends …
http://www.wfsb.com/news/16389467/detail.html
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IN HIS OWN WORDS
Dreams of My Father: “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race”.
Dreams of My Father: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”
Dreams Of My Father: “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself..”.
Dreams of my Father: One line in Malcolm X’s autobiography “spoke” to Obama “it stayed with me,” he says. “He spoke of a wish he’d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.
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Obama: ‘I’m a Pretty Darned Good Politician’
by FOXNews.com
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
… I’m a pretty darn good politician. And I can give a pretty good speech and I can connect and inspire the American people in ways that I think will become apparent.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/16/obama-im-a-pretty-darned-good-politician/
the GOP is obviously is very happy with these gaffes.
because then the attention goes to that and the message doesn’t get any attention.
the point was that his great-uncle didn’t leave the house for 6 months after his war experience.
THAT was what Obama was saying.
post-traumatic-stress-disorder wasn’t recognized then.
now soldiers get send on second tour with ptsd.
without proper treatment.
1000 veteran attempt suicide each month!
but now that message got lost.
#3 – Thank you. You’re abosolutely right.
In Canada … unlike the US … there is only one day set aside in November to honor both Veterans and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
However … I have learned that in May each year … a day set aside to honor those who paid that ultimate sacrifice and … another day is set aside in November for veterans.
Obviously … Obama was not aware of the difference. However … according to his official website … he is now. History was forever changed in regards to his Memorial Speech of 2008 by utilization of the “delete” key of the computer.
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ELECTION 2008
Can Obama see dead people?
Posted: May 27, 2008
4:22 pm Eastern
Obama began his speech yesterday stating:
“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.”
But Obama’s line about seeing fallen heroes in the audience was removed from a transcript posted on his website by his official campaign blogger, Sam Graham-Felson.
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong,” reads the campaign transcript.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65449
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OBAMA’S OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Obama on Memorial Day: “Their lives are a model for us all”
By Sam Graham-Felsen – May 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm EDT
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGB74D
May 26, 2008 – Thousands of Iraqi and Afghanistan veterans are returning home only to become casualties of war – at their own hands. Suffering from psychiatric injuries, 1,000 VETERANS UNDER VETERANS ADMINISTRATION CARE ARE ATTEMPTING SUICIDE EACH MONTH. Almost 40 percent of the young men and women returning from combat almost have proven mental health injuries that include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, major depression and traumatic brain injury.
But when they seek help, disabled veterans face a claims system so mismanaged and inefficient that they often must wait more than five years for any assistance. The Department of Veterans Affairs is choking on a backlog of some 600,000 unresolved benefits claims. Even after their eligibility has been established, thousands of veterans cannot obtain adequate mental health treatment. While they wait for the care they are owed, veterans are dying. ABOUT 126 VETERANS PER WEEK COMMIT SUICIDE. Vast numbers of veterans are living with mental illness, sometimes so severe that they are unable to work. Nationally, about 154,000 veterans are homeless on any given night and twice that many are homeless at some time during the year.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/10207
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGB74D
What led these men and women to wear their country’s uniform? What is it that leads anyone to put aside their own pursuit of life’s comforts; to subordinate their own sense of survival, for something bigger – something greater?
Many of those we honor today were so young when they were killed. They had a whole life ahead of them – birthdays and weddings, holidays with children and grandchildren, homes and jobs and happiness of their own. And yet, at one moment or another, they felt the tug, just as generations of Americans did before them. Maybe it was a massacre in a Boston square; or a President’s call to save the Union and free the slaves. Maybe it was the day of infamy that awakened a nation to a storm in the Pacific and a madman’s death march across Europe. Or maybe it was the morning they woke up to see our walls of security crumble along with our two largest towers.
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What makes a man put on a uniform and put his life on the line for his country? Well, I suppose he wouldn’t if he saw the American Flag and Star Spangled Banner as symbols of oppression. I suppose they wouldn’t if they were in their 40′s and had never been proud of their country.
What policies is Obama going to change so that America isn’t the oppressor that some believe it to be? I can’t vote for this man if I don’t know what policy changes he intends to make so that he and Michelle can be proud of America and salute our flag.
Tamikosmom quoted (in response to a previous article) from one of Obama’s books, when Obama writes:
Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Which winds is he talking about? America and Israel would like to know. Anyone considering voting for him should ask that question.
caesu … your point is well taken. Issues encompassing the lack of emotional and medical care that veterans receive upon returning home from the war zone are very real and … must be addressed.
However … Memorial Day is a designated day of reflection … a day set aside to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrific in defending our freedoms. Any diversion takes away from that honor.
Barack Obama’s speech has been edited accordingly on his website … edited to reflect honor to America’s fallen heroes. The segment of his speech regarding his uncle’s untreated Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been omitted. However … the posted transcript does not reflect the actual speech. Listen to the video.
Obama definitely had a political agenda and … I consider that inappropriate at the least.
The speech given by President Bush conformed with the significance of the day … the day that is refer to as Memorial Day.
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President Bush Attends Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day Commemoration
Arlington National Cemetery
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080526.html
I do believe another one of my submissions went poof. LOL
Oh, I forgot to thank Mr. Obama for mentioning the solidiers who annswered the President’s call to free the slaves, even though some of them were white. Meanwhile, I’d like to hear what Obama thinks constitutes a “typical white person”. We know about his grandmother, but what other traits does the “typical white person” possess?
I’m not offended by the “TWP” comment, I just want to know what he really thinks.
What I would like to know is what changes Mr. Obama wants to make. I think that all politions are bought and paid for and only worry about getting re-elected and not whats good for the USA. We need term limits ,but they would never vote for them ,so the people of the USA must find a way to get this done. God help us from todays government leaders!!
#8 says: “The speech given by President Bush conformed with the significance of the day … the day that is refer to as Memorial Day.”
What about Mr. McCain’s speech? You claim “Obama definitely had a political agenda and … I consider that inappropriate at the least.”
Then I would assume you to believe Mr. McCain’s speech was inappropriate at the least as well, no?
#8 : “The speech given by President Bush conformed with the significance of the day … the day that is refer to as Memorial Day.”
Oh really? “They’re an awesome bunch of people and the United States is blessed to have such citizens…”
Wow – the sheer elegance of his words…the grand eloquence of his speech…Like, I’m like, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill will be like speechless for sure…I mean, totally.
“Awesome bunch of People” – what an embarrasment.
11. murph: “What I would like to know is what changes Mr. Obama wants to make.” That’s what I want to know and that’s what is missing from his speeches IMO.
p.s. We do have term limits.
yoyo
This Canadian’s research involves exposing the “real” Barack Obama … NOTHING MORE.
McCain’s Memorial Day speech … I never heard or read a transcript. Maybe you could provide the FP comment section with your take on it.
President Bush’s Memorial Day speech … SM FP provided a link to it … I clicked … I read and … I was moved. Case Closed!
Janet
In all fairness, I found this quite funny. Old but good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o
14. LilPuma on May 28th, 2008 4:45 pm
“What I would like to know is WHAT CHANGES Mr. Obama wants to make.” That’s what I want to know and that’s what is missing from his speeches IMO.
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LilPuma … this is where a little background research must be conducted prior to an Obama supported casting his/her vote.
If Obama aspires to the Marist ideology of the company he has associated with for years … figure it out.
If Obama aspires to the racist, anti-American ideology of James Cones whose writings form the foundation Trinity United … figure it out.
If Obama aspires to the racist, anti-American ideology of Jeremiah Write … a pastor/ mentor/ friend for twenty years … figure it out.
If Obama aspires to …
Janet
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TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
“The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology.”
http://www.tucc.org/talking_points.htm
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Black Theology & Black Power (Paperback)
First published in 1969, “Black Theology & Black Power” provided the first systematic presentation of black theology. Relating the militant struggle for liberation with the gospel message of salvation, James Cone laid the foundation for an original interpretation of Christianity that retains its urgency and challenge today.
http://www.amazon.ca/Black-Theology-Power-J-Cone/dp/1570751579
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QUOTES – BLACK THEOLOGY AND BLACK POWER
“Christ is black therefore not because of some cultural or psychological need of black people, but because and only because Christ really enters into our world where the poor were despised and the black are, disclosing that he is with them enduring humiliation and pain and transforming oppressed slaves into liberating servants.” James Cone
“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.” James Cone
“In the New Testament, Jesus is not for all, but for the oppressed, the poor and unwanted of society, and against oppressors … Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not.” James Cone
Janet – McCain’s speech and comments are in the same place you clicked for Bush’s speech.
I’m sure you will say McCain definitely had a political agenda as well and … consider that inappropriate at the least.
Politics…in the words of the leader of the free world…”Awesome”!
18. yoyo muffintop on May 28th, 2008 5:32 pm
Janet – McCain’s speech and comments are in the same place you clicked for Bush’s speech.
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yoyo … I have copied the following post which I submitted as a response to caesu post on the SM Forum.
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I am not getting into McCain or Clinton. I am a Canadian so will not be voting for any of the candidates.
I have chosen as a project … along with a few others … to research Barack Obama’s background prior to him campaigning for the highest office in the land. The catalyst of interest began with the media exposure of Obama and Wright’s twenty year relationship.
Maybe somebody else will be inspired to research the background of Clinton or … McCain.
Hey … I believe that the backgrounds/ associations of all three candidates should be research by the American people. An informed ballot in regards to the ideology of the candidate of choice is where it is at.
mccain made a political speech on memorial day.
defending why he opposed the GI benefit bill.
and defending bush’ wars.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/Read.aspx?guid=c2780187-7ce6-4226-bf6e-f04b7a1801cd
obama instead brought PTSD by returning soldiers under the attention by mentioning his great-uncle.
about 126 veterans commit suicide each week.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/10207
Some numbers we should not forget:
– The suicide rate of veterans is at least three times the national suicide rate. In 2005, the suicide rate for veterans 18- to 24-years-old was three to four times higher than non-veterans.
– About 154,000 veterans nationwide are homeless on any given night. One-fourth of the homeless population is veterans.
– There are more homeless Vietnam veterans than the number of soldiers who were killed during that war.
– It takes at least 5.5 years, on average, to resolve a benefit claim with the Veteran’s Administration.
– More than 600,000 unresolved claims are backlogged with the Veteran’s Administration.
– Approximately 18.5 percent of service members who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq currently have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or depression.
– 19.5 percent of these veterans report experiencing traumatic brain injury.
– Roughly half of those who need treatment seek it, but only slightly more than half of those who receive treatment receive at least minimally adequate care, according to an April 2008 Rand Report.
Sources: VA, U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Rand
Sermons We See
Edgar Guest
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear,
Fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear;
And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds,
For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
I soon can learn to do it if you’ll let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lecture you deliver may be very wise and true,
But I’d rather get my lessons by observing what you do;
For I might misunderstand you and the high advise you give,
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
When I see a deed of kindness, I am eager to be kind.
When a weaker brother stumbles and a strong man stays behind
Just to see if he can help him, then the wish grows strong in me
To become as big and thoughtful as I know that friend to be.
And all travelers can witness that the best of guides today
Is not the one who tells them, but the one who shows the way.
One good man teaches many, men believe what they behold;
One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
Who stands with men of honor learns to hold his honor dear,
For right living speaks a language which to every one is clear.
Though an able speaker charms me with his eloquence, I say,
I’d rather see a sermon than to hear one, any day.
If Obama is going to make comments about such a huge and sensitive part of history, i.e. the Holocaust, then he should check his family facts before saying anything. I thought that making such errors was appalling at a time like this–running for President and unrest in the Middle East.
LilPuma on May 28th, 2008 4:45 pm
11. murph: “What I would like to know is what changes Mr. Obama wants to make.” That’s what I want to know and that’s what is missing from his speeches IMO.
IMO here, too. I have never heard what specific changes that Obama wants to make; and he’s certainly been on tv enough.
molly in houston
#19 Janet – that’s a cop out and you know it.
Being a staunch conservative as you are I am sure you read Mr. McCain’s speech. And I’m sure since you found Obama’s speech inappropriate, you found McCain’s as well.
But I don’t want to put words in your mouth so…
Do you feel the same about McCain and his stump speech on Memorial Day as Obama?
Yeah there are certainly people in this country that don’t care if they elect a president that doesn’t even know how many states are in the union he’s purposing to be president of.
Mr. Obama won’t visit Iraq well because even al Qaeda says they are losing but obama and reid know a heck of a lot more than people actually there.
There’s no question that war is hell but let’s do remember just who has been in charge of any legislation which could improve the VA for the last 2 years. It’s a broken system that was pillaged by the Clinton administration and it takes awhile to build it back up.
#22 molly in houston
“I have never heard what specific changes that Obama wants to make; and he’s certainly been on tv enough.”
i don’t watch that much american news tv.
but i guess it is mostly about his gaffes and his reverend and other IMO non-important distractions.
so don’t rely solely on your tv set for that.
to read what changes he wants to make:
The Blueprint for Change
Obama’s Plan for America
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
#3,
Please my uncle, my real uncle served under General Patton and saw more horror than any one man ever should.
He came home and didn’t hide in his attic.
Obama can attempt tp pander to the military all he wants … they will not vote for him.
R
#1.
Its not smear, its the truth. I am sorry if some of you Obama lovers can’t handle the truth.
Sorry, but Obama is a fraud. If the American people knew then what they know now … Hillary would have been the nominee. And I am no Hillary fan.
The MSM never bothered to vet Obama.
If any other candidate made as many mistakes they would be all over him, especially if it was a Republican.
R
ok, the truth is obama has trouble with names of places.
he is probably going to mix up some more names.
and i am sure it will get a lot coverage.
just like all his earlier gaffes.
and just like all the gaffes of the current president.
but this are big distractions.
this gaffe distracted from obama trying to bring op PTSD by veterans.
bush’ gaffes distract from all his lies.
even his own press secretary can’t keep quiet anymore. i wish he spoke out before the 2004 election. that could have saved so many lives.
#26 – Obama aside, you’re not saying that post-traumatic stress disorder is not real are you?
‘Cause that what it sure sounds like.
What a slap in the face to veterans/victims of sexual abuse/rape victims/etc…
Your hatred for Obama can’t be so overwhelming that it is causing you to reject PTSD as an actual anxiety disorder can it?
Put a cork in it, Michelle:
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Mrs. Obama’s remarks were also light on policy–which is understandable. After all, she’s not the one standing for office. But she showed something like contempt for even the idea of actual policy talk. “I know voters like a plan,” she said. “What’s the details, tell me about your policies. Plans are important, I agree. . . . But a lot of this stuff isn’t rocket science.”
Instead, she voiced deeper concerns: “Barack knows that at some level there’s a hole in our souls,” she said. This was a variation on her normal line that “Barack Obama is the only person in this race who understands that, that before we can work on the problems we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/764fosie.asp
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My soul is not now, nor will it ever be, in the hands of Barack Obama or his mentor, Rev. Wright.
I don’t always agree with Red on matters of politics, but I’m with him 100% on his Post #27.
Let’s get to the good stuff – Scott McClellan’s book.
This guys book, imo, is yet another half-baked series of potshots against his already reviled bosses. You could tell McClellan knew that he was just another clog in the GOP oil wheel that led us into this disaster, but did he even flinch? Nope.
This guys pocketbook was more important than concern for his countrymen, let alone the rest of the world. Just like a lot of the Bush crowd, common decency, morality, compassion, scruples, or ethical standards are terms not to be found in his playbook.
Hey McClellan – give the public something that the law can use against Bush and Cheney, not another disgruntled NeoHawk’s sob story.
He’s a tool, imo.
yoyo muffintop on May 28th, 2008 6:56 pm
#19 Janet – that’s a cop out and you know it.
Being a staunch conservative as you are I am sure you read Mr. McCain’s speech.
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yoyo … you are wrong. When I said I did not read McCain’s speech … I did not read McCain’s speech and … I still have not read McCain’s speech. Did Clinton make a Memorial Day speech? I have yet to read that either.
You are right … I am a capital “C” Conservative and … I do desire that the citizens across the border from me DO NOT elect a liberal for their President . However … I am not a part of the American election process so … I remain focused on the Natalee Holloway case and … Barack Obama’s background.
Janet
I thanked Tamikosmom before and I’ll thank her again for doing the research and bringing us some facts. Barack Obama’s own words.
FWIW, Obama is my senator. I voted for him then. Will never do that again.
33. LilPuma on May 29th, 2008 9:39 am
I thanked Tamikosmom before and I’ll thank her again for doing the research and bringing us some facts. Barack Obama’s own words.
FWIW, Obama is my senator. I voted for him then. Will never do that again.
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You are welcome LilPuma.
FYI … I have shared MOST of my research and the research of few others on this issue in the SM Politic Forum … Thread: Is Race an Issue.
Janet
I honestly don’t understand why Obama is under fire just because he is black, or half black for that matter. To say that he is “suddenly very proud of the White side of his family” is obsurd and ignorant. It’s not just the those comments that piss me off it’s the ignorance of the people who will sit there and let a news broadcast brainwash their thoughts and beliefs all together.