Hot Air Reports
As suspected, it was his great-uncle he had in mind, not his uncle, and the camp wasn’t Auschwitz but one of the ones Patton’s army liberated, namely, the Ohrdruf subcamp at Buchenwald. Look at the photos at Wikipedia and you’ll understand why he might have needed six months in the attic.
Here’s the video from CNN that you can actually understand. He claims his uncle was one of the first Americans to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.
Either he’s talking about two seperate incidents or he’s confused. I’m sure we’ll hear more about it.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Despite not having served in the military himself, Barack Obama used his Memorial Day remarks to speak about his family’s service. “My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,†he told a small group of veterans here. “My grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line, but I cannot know what it is for a family to sacrifice like so many of yours have.â€
Obama said he supports the new GI Bill because of his grandfather’s experience in the program after World War II. “We should make sure that today’s veterans get the same benefit that my grandfather got when he came back from World War II,†Obama said. “It was a good investment not only for him, but it was a good investment for the country, built our middle class. So we’re going to make sure that that gets passed.â€
He said President Bush may veto the bill, but he vowed to try and override it if it comes back to the House and Senate.
Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six months in an attic. “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,†Obama said. “That’s why this idea of making sure that every single veteran, when they are discharged, are screened for post-traumatic stress disorder and given the mental health services that they need – that’s why it’s so important.â€
The Americans didn’t liberate Auschwitz.
Timeline Index states
Patton commanded the Seventh Army until 1944, when he was given command of the Third Army in France. Patton and his troops dashed across Europe after the battle of Normandy and exploited German weaknesses with great success, covering the 600 miles across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. When the Third Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp, Patton slowed his pace. He instituted a policy, later adopted by other commanders, of making local German civilians tour the camps. By the time WWII was over, the Third Army had liberated or conquered 81,522 square miles of territory.
Maybe Obama got the name of the concentration camp wrong. Or maybe he’s completely full of it.
CNN Reports
(CNN) — In the face of mounting controversy over headline-grabbing statements from the Rev. John Hagee, CNN has learned that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain decided Thursday to reject his endorsement.
Sen. John McCain speaks in February alongside the Rev. John Hagee, a Texas televangelist.
McCain told CNN’s Brian Todd that he rejected the endorsement after Todd brought to his attention Hagee’s comments that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God’s will by hastening the desire of Jews to return to Israel in accordance with biblical prophecy.
“God says in Jeremiah 16: ‘Behold, I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave to their fathers. … Behold, I will send for many fishers, and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them.’ That would be the Jews. … Then God sent a hunter. A hunter is someone who comes with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter,” Hagee said, according to a transcript of his sermon.
In a statement to CNN on Thursday, McCain said “Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Rev. Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well.”
Shortly after McCain’s announcement Thursday afternoon, Hagee withdrew his endorsement, citing critics who had been “grossly misrepresenting” his positions.
Pastors need to stay out of public politics.
Voters is in 1000’s.
In the electoral college a candidate needs 270 votes to win the election. That can be accomplished by winning the 11 biggest states.
Those same states make up the largest populations. A candidate would only need to win about 9 of them to take the election. The top 9 are only about 500,000 votes shy but the numbers are rounded so it’s some fraction of a 10th state to win the election.
Since electoral votes are all or nothing in each of those 11 states you only need 1 more than 50% of the votes so that works out to about 54,712,000 votes deciding the national election out of 197,006,000 votes.
If you went purely on popular vote then you’d need about 98,503,000 votes.
So what is the purpose of the electoral college? To give smaller states a larger voice and to mute the voice of larger states. The US is not run by mob rule. Bad things happen when mobs rule. The founding fathers didn’t want that. It’s run by a representative government. Which means that a president can be elected by about a quarter of the population. In theory. In practice it will never happen.
ABC Reports
Despite his call for the U.S. to win the “hearts and minds of the Islamic world,” Sen. John McCain recruited the support of an evangelical minister who describes Islam as “anti-Christ” and Mohammed as “the mouthpiece of a conspiracy of spiritual evil.”
McCain sought the support of Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio at a critical time in his campaign in February, when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was continuing to draw substantial support from the Christian right.
At a campaign appearance in Cincinnati, McCain introduced Parsley as “one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide.”
Campaign aides positioned Parsley right behind McCain for photographers, apparently unconcerned about Parsley’s well-established denunciations of the Islamic faith in a book “Silent No More” and on DVDs of sermons about Islam.
“Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,” Parsley says on the DVDs reviewed by ABC News.
“America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,” Parsley says, “and I believe Sept. 11, 2001 was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”
“America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed” is a completely false statement.
Christianity teaches that Christ died on the cross for all men.
Islam teaches that Christ did not die on the cross and instead a man secretly took his place. Islam teaches that a man died for Christ.
You can’t get more “anti-Christ” than that. They claim to have a lot of respect for Christ and yet they claim he was a con who had someone else die for him but he continued to live in secret. I don’t see how that is respectful at all.
Islam has historically tried to establish itself through violence. In some parts of the world violence is still used.
So really there’s not a whole lot wrong with his message. After the cartoon riots there would a huge mindset shift even among the left in their view of Islam.
Jeremiah Wright attacked the US with a pack of lies that only the far left believe. Rev. Parsley attacked a religion with mostly true statements. I can see where Parsley gets his ideas. Wright pulled his out of his butt.
So this will end up being a non-story for the most part. McCain said he “doesn’t agree” and that’s enough.
Obama Clinton Tied Male 23 9 1 Female 13 20 0 White > 70% 2 6 0 Black > 70% 22 0 0
The media wants to talk about sexism and racism in the democratic race. The problem is that they only want to talk about the female vote and the white vote.
The CNN exit polls highlight the exact oppositite. Men are voting far more often for Barack than women are voting for Hillary. Obama often wins the female vote.
The white vote in only 6 states went to 70% or above for Hillary. The black vote has gone to 70% or above for barack 22 times.
So why won’t the MSM talk about the male vote and the black vote? Because those affect Obama and it would be racist to talk about his voters negatively.
Currently running around the net:
The differences between McCain, Hillary, and Obama:
John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama were walking down a DC street when they came upon a homeless man.
John McCain gave the man his business card and told him to come to his office for a job. He then took $20 out of his pocket and gave it to the man.
Hillary was very impressed, so when they came upon another homeless man, she decided to help. She walked over to him and gave him directions to the welfare office. She then reached into John McCain’s pocket and got out $20. She kept $15 for her administrative fees and gave the homeless man $5.
When they came upon yet another homeless man, Barack to him to “have hope…change is coming…” and gave him nothing.
Hugh Hewitt has the scoop from an Obama e-mail advertising the rally
Special Guest Performance by: Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, and John Moen
Instead of calling them “The Decemberists” they just list the band members.
Maybe because the band has a certain thing for communism often opening with the Soviet National Anthem.
Maybe they just think it sounds cool.