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stroller

One would not know what to think or post, if it weren't for them blogs.

Heh!

Boon Mee

Actually, you're not far off on that one, Stroll. I don't mean they 'teach' you how to view BO & his old lady but they reflect the sheer enmity that's out there for them.

Tell you what - it's not going to be any cakewalk for him in November no matter how many 'donor' lists etc reflect some kind of groundswell...

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Texpat

Yeah, a sellout is in order. Whadda ya think, green cards for the lot and maybe throw in arizona and new mexico?

Norton

Shit Tex we don't want them just their money. I noted in another post Ray wanted to relocate Israel. Arizona would be a perfect candidate. Hot, dry and a supportive Senator. Added value would cut down on illegals entering US.

Boon Mee

And here's a free book exposing BO. Looks like a NYT bestseller fer sure!

Barack Obama: EXPOSED! - FREE Report G

stroller

How can a free book become a bestseller?

Boon Mee

A Pulitzer Prize winner maybe?

stroller

No doubt about it, and the peace Nobel prize for saving Western civilisation from communism?

Boon Mee

"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..." -- Barack Obama

raycarey

and the quote from obama references when?

heh.

Boon Mee

Heh right back.

I'm not running for President of the United States...

Boon Mee

BO is resorting to pure fantasy now: "I had an Uncle who liberated Auschwitz."

Heh...that would be nice if his 'uncle' was with the Russian Army!



A transcription:

"Uh ... I had a ... uncle who was one of the ... uh ... 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 ... into the attic, and he didn’t leave the house for six months."

Auschwitz of course is in Poland and was liberated by the Red Army on Jan 27, 1945. Poland on most maps lies east of Germany...heh

Rewriting WW2 history? This is worse than the Hildabeast's experience with sniper fire!

sabang

^ Ahem.

Barack Obama, at a Memorial Day event in Las Cruces, N.M., credited his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, as being among the U.S. troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.

The trouble with that bit of history is -- as the Republican National Committee pointed out today -- is that the Soviet Red Army was the military force that liberated the World War II death camp.

The RNC seized the opportunity to fire off a news release, saying that “unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there’s no way Obama’s statement yesterday can be true. Obama’s frequent exaggerations and outright distortions raise questions about his judgment and his readiness to lead as commander in chief.”

The Obama campaign soon acknowledged that the Democratic candidate made a mistake. It explained that Obama’s great-uncle was in the 89th Infantry Division that helped liberate another notorious death camp, Buchenwald. Obama, the campaign said, “is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II -- especially the fact that his great-uncle was part of liberating of one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald.”

All of which raises the question: What's worse, Obama's apparent gaffe or the RNC pouncing on a Holocaust-related historical mistake for political advantage?

-- Stuart Silverstein

The Nazi death camp that Barack Obama's great-uncle actually helped liberate : Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times

I don't think you'll get much mileage out of that one booner.

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Boon Mee

BO's “Auschwitz” story is nothing new.

He was telling similar stories about his grandfather back in 2002, in his now-famous Iraq speech, which I’d never previously read:

My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka.

The first troops to enter those two camps (in Poland) were Soviet troops, so unless Patton was leading them, this can’t be true.

That doesn't matter to BO tho. It's a pattern here folks.
Congenital lier?

Boon Mee

Shouldn't we expect a Presidential candidate to like, know stuff?

"Granted, it is getting late in the campaign. The candidates are tired, and prone to making silly mistakes. Many Americans might have problems distinguishing Buchenwald and Ohrdruf from Auschwitz. But should we not expect more from a Harvard-educated presidential candidate? Is it too much to ask that an aspiring commander-in-chief knows (1) that Auschwitz (like many of the other Nazi death camps) is in Poland, and (2) that the eastern advance of the U.S. Army in World War II stopped on the river Elbe?"

Where in the world is Auschwitz? - Fact Checker

Norton

Yeah, like something about economics and the difference between a Shia and a Sunni. I really do think there is way too much silly season stuff nonsense going on by the media and the bloggers. Can't wait until the lull is over and there are some serious things to debate here.

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Jet Gorgon

^^ Was that his white great uncle who fought in WWII? Or was it his dad's uncle come up from Kenya?

Norton

Shaka Zulu was his nik. Hell of a fighter.

Jet Gorgon

^ I saw that movie.

Bugs

Rev. Michael Pfleger about Hillary:
I certainly don't think this priest is indicative of what Obama actually thinks (he might have pegged Hillary's thoughts), but if men of the cloth keep spouting off like this (and getting caught on video while they are at it) then it ain't going to make things easy on Obama.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24882600

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