May 27, 2008, - 2:27 pm
About Obama’s Newly-Surfaced “Auschwitz Liberator” Uncle
By Debbie Schlussel
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When he’s not saying a whole lotta nothin’, Barack Hussein Obama is usually making stuff up, changing his story, or engaging in some other sort of lying.
That’s why I’m skeptical–along with many readers–of Obama’s Memorial Day comments yesterday about an uncle who allegedly liberated Auschwitz:
“In World War Two we didn’t have the concept of post traumatic stress syndrome. People had to basically handle it on their own,” he said. Referring to an uncle who had been one of the first U.S. troops into Auschwitz, the concentration camp, Obama said: “The story in the family is he came home and just went up in the attic.”
Bill Warner sends this photo of Auschwitz Liberation . . .
After all the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic stuff he and his advisors and cronies have uttered and engaged in, what better way to try to get back some of that “stubborn” Jewish vote he’s squandered, than to suddenly conjure up an uncle who liberated Jews from the Nazis?
And it seems to have worked with at least one (and actually the majority) of my gullible fellow co-religionists:
Afterward, Paul Weinbaum, 66, beamed his approval of a candidate who had captured both his frustrations and his desire.
“There is hope for America,” he said. “The sincerity comes through.”
He wore a straw cowboy hat, a Star of David necklace and, on his lapel, the crossed rifles of an infantryman, which took some explaining. Weinbaum served in the Navy during Vietnam, but after the war emerged into an economy that could not give him civilian work. “I got out of the Navy, went to college: No jobs. So I joined the Army.”
We’ve never heard of this unnamed, anonymous, allegedly Auschwitz-liberating uncle before. So, it’s odd, he suddenly “remembered” this person (if the person even exists).
Either way–imaginary uncle or not–no Jew, no American should vote for a guy based on whether his uncle saved Jews now mostly dead or dying from Nazis now mostly dead or dying, when Obama, himself, comiserates with and wants to appease the new Nazis of Islam around the world, including Der Fuhrer Ahmadinejad.
Who cares if your relatives liberated people, when you want to break pita with the modern incarnations of their murderers and tormentors?
Oh, by the way, did you hear? Michelle Hussein Obama’s aunt was in the Haganah.
**** UPDATE: Reader Craig writes:
Umm, Deb, Auschwitz is in POLAND and was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in Jan or Feb of 1945 . . . . Was his uncle in the Red Army?
Yes, and his aunt had an office in the Kremlin. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
**** UPDATE #2: FOX News reports this as being Obama’s exact quote–surely a lie:
I had a [sic] uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps and the story in our family is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he did’t leave the house for six months, right. Now obviously something had really affected him deeply but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain.
So…Obama’s uncle fought with the USSR ??
I read that Auschwitz was liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union in the First Army of the Ukrainian Front, under the command of Marshal Koniev, on January 27, 1945.
Comrade Obama, anyone ???
Wait….Obama must be just seeing Dead People again…
Shootist on May 27, 2008 at 2:46 pm