A New Problem For Obama? His Aushwitz liberating Uncle who hid in the attic, was in the navy!http://www.riehlworldview.com/

A New Problem For Obama? Okay, so we have supposedly learned that it was Obama’s Great Uncle that liberated a sub-section of Buchenwald, not an uncle at Auschwitz. But if sources are correct and unless there’s some arcane military history in his favor, Obama still has a problem.

His only Great Uncle is Charles W. Payne. It at least appears that no one by that name from Kansas served in the Army during WWII.

Charles W. Payne of Kansas, with a similar birth era, served in the Navy during WWII.

What Obama’s campaign released via first link above states he served in the Infantry. I assume it’s possible the records are wrong, or he changed branches. But I’m unaware of that as a standard practice. Perhaps it happened during WWII for manpower reasons? Otherwise, Obama’s Great Uncle would seem to have done most of his marching and liberating while at sea.

Information about the infantry division that Obama’s great uncle was a part of that took part in the liberation of a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi German:

 ”I want to be perfectly clear with George and John McCain,” Obama said, “If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate I’m willing to have anytime, anywhere because that is a debate that I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.”

More: “I’m running for president to change course,” Obama said….

What course, which way and where…

 Brilliant, Democratic candidate Barack Obama maybe should  study  plain folk’s common sense. And, guess what, “Some dichos have classical or biblical roots”

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has accused George W. Bush of an “extraordinary politicization” of foreign policy, after the US leader implied Democrats want to appease terrorists.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)

In today’s Washington Times Editorial, the paper exalts the figure of Senator Obama, and describes him  as, brilliant, fresh, idealistic and eloquent…”

Another take on the Senator’s charming qualities:

…”And there’s the happy-talk boy wonder, the plaster Balthazar in the Cook County political crèche, whose policy pronouncements sound like a walk through Greenwich Village in 1968: “Change, man? Got any spare change? Change?”

“La plus ça change, la plus c’est la même chose”

Latest on the “Le Change” group.

“Obama … is running as well or better than past Democratic candidates among white voters,” the memo (Obama’s campaign) said, showing he currently holds a share of white support similar to that Al Gore and John Kerry held in their head-to-head contests in 2000 and 2004″ The Politico

“Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as “the masses.”  Ronald Reagan

A Time for Choosing (aka “The Speech”) 1964

Or  today,as a “white statistic”…

Fr. Richard Neuhaus writes in the December issue of “First Things,” in his column titled The Public Square:”Remember the Kosovo War of 1996-1999. It turns out that, in the Albanian-dominated areas of the Balkans that had been conquered by the Ottoman Empire, there were, going back to the 17th century, thousands of Catholic Christians who nominally “converted” to Islam but continued to practice their faith surreptitiously.  Now these crypto-Catholics, as they are called, are out in the open and building and rebuilding, the churches in their villages.  For a long time, people visited priests secretly, and their baptisms were recorded in closely guarded registries, since there were several penalties for Muslims receiving Christian sacraments.  This resurgence of Christianity is probably not what Sandy Berger, the national security adviser at the time, had in mind when, on May 7, 1996, he spoke to the American Muslim Council, assuring them that PresidentClinton’s policy in Kosovo was in support of building “a bridge between the United States and the Muslim world.”  In the same speech, he said that international terrorism “is a problem many Americans mistakenly link to Islam.”  I wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Berger is still baffled by how many Americans continue to make that mistake.  As recently reported, Mr. Berger, having put behind him the legal difficulties occasioned by his stealing classified documents, is foreign policy adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton.”

 That last month Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) chairman of the House Waysand Means Committee, unveiled the Mother of all Tax Hikes, costing about a trillion dollars over 10 years.

  Reps. Obey (D-Wi) and Murtha (D-Pa) and McGovern (D-Ma) have called for a temporary surtax to finance the war, with the sole intention of influencing public opinion against the war. According to Heritage Foundation scholars JD Foster and James Carafano, in their article dated  Nov. 13, titled “Higher taxes equal less security”, they write: “What’s illuminating about all these arguments is what’s not said. No mention of reforming entitlement programs  to make them sustainable. No mention of cutting spending to reduce the need to sell debt to foreigners.  No mention of “sacrificing” for the war effort by foregoing less essential expenditures-like highways to nowhere or federally funded bike trails.  The government can afford current military operations (like Iraq and Afghanistan) maintain a trained and ready force and modernize to meet future security challenges if it commits to an ongoing investment of 4 % of its GDP (gross domestic product)-less than 0.1 % more than we spend today. Importantly, 4 % of GDP is the average level of defense spending for the post WWII era.Equally important, current tax revenues are also running at normal modern-era levels: about 18.8 % of GDP.  The problem isn’t that we’re not taxed enough to defend ourselves.  It’s that Congress spends too much of our tax money on non-defense programs.” And Rep. Jim McCrery, (R-Louisiana) writes “ But the Democrats’ plan would increase our taxes to 20.1 % of our GDP . Real tax reform should begin by deciding what level of taxation is best for our government and our economy, and then designing a modern, efficient tax system to raise that revenue.Our goal should be to make the US a beacon for capital investment and the jobs and economic growth that come with it…”  TheWashington Times, “ Where paygo means you pay”, Nov. 7, 2007.

 2. That Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton voted against Sen.John Cornyn’s resolution condemning the Move-On Org. ad “Petraeus –Betray Us” ad in the New York Times.  Furthermore, she went on to say, in the hearings, that “his testimony required a willful suspension of disbelief”. Thus, calling him  a liar. 

3. That the stock price of the New York Times has fallen under the direction of “Pinch”, from a high of $52 in 2002 to $18.87 on Friday, Nov. 9^th, 2007. 

4. That Jonathan Soros wrote an op-ed piece published on October 30 called:”Vote Early, Count Often” and that he is the son of George Soros….Among many leftist groups he supports, he is a great donor of MoveOn.Org, putting $100,000 in its coffers during the 2004 election. Like father, like son.  From Human Events:Does MoveOn.org own the New York Times? By Jed Babbin.

 5. That the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library and the University of Arkansas will NOT release any papers relevant to Mrs. Rodham Clinton’s campaign in 1992 nor her  tumultuous years as First Lady…until at least 2009.  6. That  “nowadays it’s the bloggers, not media lords, who control the flow of information…The bloggers are a throwback to the early days of the Republic, when citizens published their opinions in broadsheets they  handed out in public squares and nailed to community bulletin boards. Most were loaded  with opinions laced with vitriol.” From  The Politico: Bloggers are this generation’s Muckrakers by Martin Tolchin 

Thank you, President Sarkozy