Obama: Not THAT Deathcamp. The OTHER Death Camp. And, Oh Yeah….. It Was My Great Uncle
Somebody must have clued Obama in:
“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. “Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically.”
The campaign said his great uncle, Charlie Payne, served in the 89th Infantry Division, and that the unit was among those to liberate Ohrdruf on April 4, 1945.
According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Web site, Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops in Germany. The site said the 89th Infantry Division was later recognized as a “liberating unit” by the museum and the Army’s Center of Military History.
Oh. Well, that explains it. It was just a factual mix-up.
I don’t have any real problems with that - but I wonder just how many other factual mixups he has.
By the way....not to be too picky, but isn’t he suddenly awfully proud of his mother’s side of the family when he and his wife have attended a church that was critical of white America to the point of hatred?
Just asking.












