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My Uncle Liberated Auschwitz

 

Barack Obama, in a speech in New Mexico, said that his uncle was one of the first American forces to go into, and liberate, the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Let's go ahead and take a look at the Messiah making the claim:


I applaud Barack Obama's uncle, except, my knowledge of history and geography clashes a bit. I thought Auschwitz was located in Poland, which is east of Germany. >I turn to Ace to explain that very-meaningful detail:

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.

Ace then jokes that the only way Barack's uncle could've liberated Auschwitz is if he was in the Red Army. This was before the video came out and put a stop to even that possibility, since Barry O. said his uncle was amongst the first Americans to liberate the camps. Lie much? Credibility.

Can't count on Justin for the whole story

Oh YES! What a REMARKABLY IMPORTANT EVENT this is! There's NEVER BEEN A GOTCHA as important this one! THE ELECTION IS OVER!

Kee-rist. If this is the best the wingnuts can do, you lunkheads can just pack up and go home.

Justin Higgins, the warped, dishonest little boy who runs this cesspool-cum-blog, has of course omitted some salient facts -- because to fully inform his readers would be to run the unacceptable risk that they might draw their own conclusions.

Carpetbagger Report:

For the entire day yesterday, most of the far-right voices wanted to talk about nothing else but Obama’s shameful “lies.” The Republican National Committee issued a statement, arguing that Obama’s minor error “raise[s] questions about his judgment” and his “readiness to lead.” Unhinged conservative bloggers went completely around the bend — Red State said Obama’s remarks were “sickening” and “a bold faced lie.”

It’s as if Republicans woke up yesterday, ate a bowl of Crazy Flakes, and then went straight for their keyboards. (Regrettably, some of Clinton’s more rabid supporters joined the far-right on this one, though there’s no evidence that the campaign itself was pushing this story.)

The service of Obama’s great uncle was actually pretty amazing. He served in the 89th Infantry Division that liberated Ohrdruf in April 1945, a Subcamp of Buchenwald, which was the first camp liberated by Americans. Obama misstated the name of the camp. What difference does it make? Has the political world become so consumed with bile, and so overwhelmed with trivia, that this harmless error is evidence of something important?

Or, as the LAT’s Stuart Silverstein put it, “What’s worse, Obama’s apparent gaffe or the RNC pouncing on a Holocaust-related historical mistake for political advantage?”

If Obama’s uncle hadn’t served in the military, or hadn’t even left the country during World War II, I could see this being more embarrassing and newsworthy. Ronald Reagan, for example, boasted that he’d served in an Army unit that filmed recently liberated death camps. In reality, Reagan never left the U.S. during the war. Later, Reagan claimed to have seen secret military film of Nazi atrocities, though the film didn’t actually exist.

That’s controversial. Obama’s inconsequential error was utterly meaningless. That this became a huge deal to the Republican Attack Machine highlights just how far off the edge these poor schmoes have fallen.

Wingnuts like Justin Higgins jump on this kind of bandwagon for a reason: they are intellectually incapable of discussing the real issues that face America in this election year. They don’t even understand why discussing real issues is important.

Distort the truth much, Justin? Credibility... you ain't got a shred of it.

Who's the racist?

It seems Obama can only brag about the white side of his family. By Lefty standards, wouldn't that make him a racist?

The Red Army were liberators!

  • Submitted by cao on Wed, 2008-05-28 06:25.

And in the tradition of the Soviets, the Messiah will set us free from the chains of racism and capitalist worker bondage!

bwahahahaha.

BO will introduce us to the concept of dhimmitude that will fall upon us faster than Eurasia while he shakes hands with our enemies like Iran without preconditions.

HE did liberate it-

-and Ronald Reagan was right next to him liberating it.

Racist

  • Submitted by Ogre (not verified) on Tue, 2008-05-27 15:50.

Well, Justin, obviously you're a racist. If you question the Messiah, you are simply an unbeliever and can only be so because you're a racist. I guess you're just a typical white person, so you NEED Obama to alleviate your racist tendencies.