Yesterday, Obama mentioned that his uncle, Charlie Payne, helped to liberate the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. The Republicans were hoping that they could catch Obama lying - that maybe Obama never had an uncle who helped liberate the Jews in Europe. Well, in fact, Obama's uncle (his grandmother's brother) helped liberate the Nazi camp at Buchenwald (Obama mixed up Auschwitz and Buchenwald). So the Republicans (and a few Hillary fans emailed me as well) are trying to allege... what exactly? That Obama's family did in fact help save the Jews in Europe, but Obama got the name of the camp he liberated wrong? Okay. I'm not quite sure how that gives us any insight into Obama (other than his uncle is a hero) - I don't really know the difference Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen Belsen and the rest of the camps. I just know that I'd be damn proud if a member of my family helped liberate them. Not to mention, according to the US Holocaust Museum, Obama's uncle's Infantry Division didn't just liberate one of the camps that made up Buchenwald. It was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by US troops in all of Germany. That's pretty amazing.
Well now how can a man who cannot tell the difference between Auschwitz and Buchenwald possibly be qualified to be President?
I mean the only thing that would disqualify a candidate more would be one could not tell the difference between the Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq. Because that is a war that we are still fighting.
Or even worse, if we had a candidate who imagined that they had faced some dangerous situation in the past that had never actually taken place. You know, like imagining that you had once been under sniper fire or something like that. I mean that would probably end almost ANYBODIES political career.
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