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“Unfortunately, in learning a lesson on foreign policy, Obama managed to anger both parties and forced them into making public demands that only make diplomacy more difficult later. This is what happens when candidates with no experience in diplomacy and foreign policy think themselves experts in both.”

And WTF about the Start of David lapel pin?!? You have got to be kidding me.

But why couldn’t he just default on his student loans like all the Kollel guys do? In the 5 years he’s been actively deployed he could’ve gotten Simicah and he’d be in my bed right now and I wouldn’t be a frustrated MILF.

On the other hand, I’ve read some suggestions that this was information his aids dug up for him about his family history he probably did not know. It shows one of three things: 1. a poor memory, 2. information that was new to him, meaning he hadn’t practiced it or told it too much, and/or 3. that he is bad at ad-lib.

Either way, I respect his great uncle for his service and for his work in liberating a death camp. I just hope that with Obama’s poor understanding of history and naivety, he doesn’t accidentally allow another Shoah to occur, if in the position of POTUS.

On the same day that speech given in the above video was made, Obama corrected himself stating that the actual camp was Buchenwald, not Auschwitz.

When we realize that the actual name is Auschwitz Birkenau, we might accept that it is possible for someone to confuse the similar sounding names of Birkenau and Buchenwald.

Who knows how often this story is spoken about at Obama’s family reunions and holidays. I’m sure that every Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and birthday in a gentile household involves retelling stories of nazi atrocities and the American soldiers who fought to liberate those camps. It turns out that Obama also used ‘Uncle’ when he really meant ‘Great-Uncle’. So Obama may have been told this story once or twice at a young age, mixed up Buchenwald with the more commonly mentioned Auschwitz Birkenau, and always remembered the wrong name. With both of his parents having passed, who knows how often Obama asks his remaining family about this history, if they even are of the generation that would have experienced WW2 and known the story first hand.

So in the end it turns out that the ‘Great-Uncle’ was with the 89th Infantry Division, and which liberated Ohrdruf (Buchenwald subcamp). Ohrdruf, another tough name that I would never expect a child to remember about where a family member had once visited. A reasonable person would not fault telling the story using Buchenwald instead of Ohrdruf, because no one has heard of Ohrdruf but would recognize Buchenwald if you used that name.

It is one thing to post old news that might have slipped through the cracks. But this story was well commented in the news one week ago, as was the same day follow up of the corrected camp name which should have been included in your original post, if you still actually felt it worthy to post the full story about someone who mixed up two names of nazi camps in the process of telling a story about his heroic relative.