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Wednesday, May 28 2008, 09:28 AM Obama mistaken on name of Nazi death camp The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great-uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II. 65 News Stories, 6 Liberal Blogs, 10 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

Daily Kos Gaffe....you Want A Gaffe? Barack Obama was on the campaign trail this weekend, celebrating and honoring veterans along the way. While talking about the service of his grandfather and uncle in WWII at an event, he said that his uncle had been devastated by the effects of war, parti

Oliver Willis Holocaust Is Fair Game For Mccain Campaign Sen. Obama’s great uncle fought in WWII and helped to liberate a Nazi prison camp, specifically Buchenwald. Sen. Obama mistakenly said Auschwitz. The facts of the matter do not change. Obama’s uncle was part of the greatest generation that sav

Wonkette Barack Obama Admits He Never Liberated Auschwitz [he Knows Nothing] WAY TO GO, MOR-AN! Barack Obama has admitted that he lied about his uncle liberating Auschwitz during the last World War, when really it was the Communist Soviets. This 'error' provides empirical evidence that he's also lying about everything else. For ex

The Carpetbagger Report It Was ?merely? A Nazi Slave Labor Camp On Wednesday, Republicans collectively went completely berserk after Obama said a great-uncle had helped to liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II. Once they realized Obama had a great-uncle who had actually helped to liberate Buchen

The Carpetbagger Report Obama?s Uncle, A Concentration Camp, And Molehill Politics To The Extreme John Harris noted the other day, “The signature defect of modern political journalism is that it has shredded the ideal of proportionality.” Important stories, resulting after extensive journalistic work, go by unnoticed, while trivial stories

The Talent Show Pull My Finger This whole tempest in a teapot about Obama telling an untrue story about his grandfather is pretty stupid. Nevertheless, it gives Clinton supporters something to latch on to distract them from the fact that their candidate lost the election. Jeralyn at Ta

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Dean's World What?s The Real Significance Of Obama?s Nazi Gaffe? The latest stupid, petty controversy in the presidential primaries/election is people being “outraged”–and the Republicans demanding an explanation–for Senator Obama confusing Auschwitz with Buchenwald in a recent speech. According

Wizbang Lies, Damned Lies, And Misstatements Earlier this week, Senator Barack Obama made headlines when he spoke with pride about one member of his family's military service. His uncle, you see, had helped to liberate the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. This remark puzzled a lot of people. After all

The Agitator Gaffe-prone?obama? John Hinderaker (the guy who wrote this embarrassing love letter to President Bush) calls Barack Obama “the most gaffe-prone politician in memory.” You gotta’ be kidding me. Frankly, I’m not really even sure the latest Obama gaffe

California Conservative 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 Auschwit

memeorandum Where In The World Is Auschwitz? (michael Dobbs/fact Checker) Michael Dobbs / Fact Checker: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS AUSCHWITZ? — AUSCHWITZ, JANUARY 1945. … IN AN ATTEMPT TO BURNISH HIS CREDENTIALS WITH AMERICA'S VETERANS, BARACK OBAMA HAS FREQUENTLY TALKED ABOUT HIS GRANDFATHER “WHO SE

California Conservative Sliced & Diced By The Best I pride myself in writing detailed fiskings of liberal political figures. That said, I’m humbled by Karl Rove’s total demolition of Sen. Obama in this morning’s WSJ. Here’s the opening of his op-ed: This week’s minor controve

memeorandum The Uncle Seems Real (transterrestrial Musings) Transterrestrial Musings: The Uncle Seems Real — OK, Occam's Razor would indicate that Barack Obama has a maternal great uncle (i.e., his mother's mother's brother), named Charles Payne (middle initial unclear) who served with the 355th

memeorandum Obama's World War Ii History (ben Smith/ben Smith's Blogs) Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs: Obama's World War II history — Earlier, the Republican National Committee pounced on Obama's improbable statement that an uncle had served in the unit that liberated Auschwitz. — In fact,

UrbanGrounds Was Obama?s Great Uncle Even In The Army During Wwii? I wrote yesterday about Barry Obama re-inventing military and world history by claiming that his uncle was part of an American infantry brigade that liberated Auschwitz. Two real big problems were immediately apparent: Obama doesn’t have any uncles

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run Barack's Uncle Problem The Wash Post reports this bit from a campaign speech by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) yesterday:"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," Obam