Obama's father was in the Russian Army?!

A slip of the tongue? A misremembered event? I wonder if there were snipers when his grandfather liberated Auschwitz with the Red Army?

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An aide to Barack Obama says the candidate misspoke on Memorial Day when he told a group of veterans that his uncle was among the American troops who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In fact, Obama's great uncle took part in the liberation of one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald, spokesman Bill Burton said this afternoon.

"Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically," Burton said.

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- ... "My grandfather marched in Patton's army, ...."

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Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.
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A slip of the tongue? A misremembered event? I wonder if there were snipers when his grandfather liberated Auschwitz with the Red Army?

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A slip of the tongue? A misremembered event? I wonder if there were snipers when his grandfather liberated Auschwitz with the Red Army?

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A slip of the tongue. Americans did liberate concentration camps, just not Auschwitz. Obama misspoke. He might have had Auschwitz confused with Buchenwald, which was liberated by Patton's army.

This is why I don't follow political campaigns on a day to day basis. People pounce on anything, no matter how insignificant, to beat the candidates down over it. Ooh. He called a can of baked beans pork n beans. Not fit to serve.

McGentrix, just curious because I see no mention by Obama of his father in your article. Is your title 'Obama's father was in the Russian Army?! a kind of slip of the tongue? I guess it can happen to the best AND worst of them.

These family legends often get exaggerated. The big thing in my family was that one of our cousins Wallis Warfield married the King of England who renounced her throne for her. I never did ever find out how close a cousin she really was but to hear my relatives tell it, she was almost a sister rather than a cousin. There was also a lot of talk that a great, great whatever was a prince, my estrangend grandfather was Jewish, that we have "black blood" in us. (we all have an overabundance of singing and dancing talent!)


I have no idea how much of these family legends are true. But I bet that Obama's relatives used the much more known location of Auschwitz when retelling the yarn.

so you're great singers and dancers because you have black blood eh? How 'bout the three pointer? Can you hit the three pointer? You reveal yourself.

McGentrix, just curious because I see no mention by Obama of his father in your article. Is your title 'Obama's father was in the Russian Army?! a kind of slip of the tongue? I guess it can happen to the best AND worst of them.