Saturday, May 31, 2008

Obama Takes Another Page From Clinton's Book

In "Obama Takes A Page From Clinton's Book", I compared Obama's repeated statements that most of his campaign money has come from small donors, to Hillary Clinton's now famous misrepresentations of the truth. It seems that Obama may have recently pulled another play from the Clinton playbook, in his speech on Memorial Day. Obama said; "I had an uncle who was ... part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps". A few days later Obama admitted that it was in fact his great-uncle, who had helped liberate a part of the Buchenwald camp, not Auschwitz. Earlier, Republicans had pointed out that it was Soviet troops that freed the Auschwitz camp. Is this really such a big mistake? When Obama spoke about his donors, as I spoke about above, it could be considered a lie. This time I think we need to give Senator Obama the benefit of the doubt. He was most likely told this story about his "uncle" when he was very young. Of all of the horrific Nazi camps, Auschwitz is the most infamous. If people cannot see that there is a huge difference between this Obama gaffe, and let's say Clinton's Bosnia fantasy, then they are just attempting to politicize this story. Clinton's dramatic experience was firsthand, Obama's was told to him years ago.

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