The Drive-By Media out there saying, "You know, we gotta cut both these people, all three of these people some slack. I mean, it's a long campaign out there. There are going to be misstatements. As many words as these people speak, why, they can't possibly be expected to get everything right all the time. There are going to be slip-ups."
So he's a walking gaffe machine out there, and they say, "Yeah, you gotta cut these people some slack." No, no, no! At some point, doesn't it make sense that somebody running for president should know some things, should have a basic understanding of American history? What this guy has -- and this is a psychological problem, and somebody has written about it on a blog.
Let me see. Where was this written about? 'Cause it's exactly right. RedState.com: "A Pathological Need to be Part of History," and it's true. Almost half of these gaffes that Obama makes involve a family member being involved in it somehow. Like Selma and his father getting over to the country because of the Kennedys, and now some relative raiding -- what was it, Auschwitz? Well, no. Wherever he said it was, he got it wrong. But there is this need -- and as Byron York points out, and I think this is an interesting observation, too. "Have you noticed," Byron York says, "that the only family members that Barack talks about are the white side of his family?" His mother, his grandmother. We never hear about all the great heroes on his father's side of the family. His father... There was one little, I think, reference to his father being so moved by the Kennedys or so moved by something that he came over here and found his mom and married her, but that turns out to be an exaggeration."
This is Monday, Memorial Day. This is shortly after Obama just saw the dead. He's giving a Memorial Day speech, fallen line, broken lane, breaking line of fallen heroes, "some of whom I see here today." Some of whom I see here today! He also said this.
OBAMA: I had an uncle 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 attic and he didn't leave the house for six months.
Yeah, this was part of posttraumatic stress disorder. This is his motivating, inspiring, and uplifting Memorial Day speech. It was supposed to be a speech honoring the dead who have served this country, instead he tries to portray them all as a bunch of psychological nutcases. Anyway, he got it wrong. The Red Army, by the way the Russians -- who at the time were our allies because they hated the Nazis; they despised them. You remember, George Patton radioed back to headquarters, said, "Ike? Omar? Let me head into Moscow and take care of these people now. We're going to have hell to pay if we don't." They wouldn't let him go. And he turned out to be right. But after he finished off what he was doing in World War II with the Nazis, he wanted to head right over to Moscow and finish these guys off, and they said no. So it was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz, and of course Obama's uncle could not... Well, maybe... Who the hell knows? But anyway, gets home, is six months up in the attic because he was so distressed. Last Night, Lou Dobbs Tonight had this exchange with correspondent Candy Crowley.
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