{"id":5338,"date":"2008-05-28T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/05\/the-gaffe-machine-makes-anothe.html"},"modified":"2008-05-28T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T08:54:21","slug":"the-gaffe-machine-makes-anothe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/05\/the-gaffe-machine-makes-anothe.html","title":{"rendered":"The gaffe machine makes another gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! He’s making daily gaffes! This must be some kind of record. Here’s<\/a> the gaffe:<\/p>\n

“I had an uncle who was one of the, um, 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 in the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It turns out it was his great-uncle and Obama claims he liberated Ohrdruf, not Auschwitz.<\/p>\n

The Obama campaign now says that Obama was referring to his great-uncle on his mother’s side, and the camp in question was not Auschwitz, but Ohrdruf, which was part of the Buchenwald camp system in Lower Saxony.
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\nGranted, it is getting late in the campaign. The candidates are tired, and prone to making silly mistakes. Many Americans might have problems distinguishing Buchenwald and Ohrdruf from Auschwitz. But should we not expect more from a Harvard-educated presidential candidate? Is it too much to ask that an aspiring commander-in-chief knows (1) that Auschwitz (like many of the other Nazi death camps) is in Poland, and (2) that the eastern advance of the U.S. Army in World War II stopped on the river Elbe? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, we do expect more from Harvard, don’t we? And yeah, it would be nice to have a president who actually is a little more up on history and geography but the Democrats are intent on nominating this guy \ud83d\ude42 He’s starting to make Bush look like a genius (hehe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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