http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-claims-his-uncle-liberated-auschwitz

My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a
larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not
fight in vain. I don’t oppose all wars.

It was friends of his grandfather that were in the red army? Where was his uncle/great uncle then?

What all these examples add up to is a man who will redefine reality to suit himself and we’ve all seen how dangerous that can be in the White House after eight years of Bill Clinton who famously questioned the meaning of the word “is.”

Like Bill Clinton, it appears that Obama finds the truth to be relative to his own needs which is not a very healthy attribute to have in a President let alone a human being.

Which would make a great story except potatoe, with an e, is an acceptable spelling and had the extra benefit of being what was written on the answer sheet that the teacher gave Quayle to test the class with.

And speaking of being ignored, McCain has been ignoring Bush’s personal presence for over 3 months, until today. He’s having a fund-raiser and Bush is the main ticket draw. McCain’s campaign sent emails to various reporters, informing the journalists of the senator’s schedule, and the big event (which was relocated at the last minute due to an inability to sell tickets), but the email , “…made no mention that the leader of the free world would be appearing with the candidate tonight.”

Obama, of course, saw this as low hanging fruit:

“I just had the privilege of visiting with Felicitas Rosel and Francisco Cano at their home here in Las Vegas,” Obama said. “Today, John McCain is having a different kind of meeting. He’s holding a fundraiser with George Bush behind closed doors in Arizona. No cameras. No reporters. And we all know why. Senator McCain doesn’t want to be seen, hat-in-hand, with the President whose failed policies he promises to continue for another four years.

“But the question for the American people is: do we want to continue George Bush’s policies? … On issue after issue, John McCain is offering more of the same policies that have failed for the last eight years. That’s the agenda that he and the President are raising money to support later today. But I’m here in Nevada because we know it’s time to turn the page…. We’ve had enough of the can’t-do, won’t do, won’t even try approach from George Bush and John McCain. We can’t afford another President who can’t be bothered to stand up for working people. It’s time for change. It’s time that Washington went to work for working people.”

I suppose the McCain campaign will be tempted to respond — but that might involve acknowledging the reality of the McBush event; a classic catch-22 senario.

Actually, the thing that made Quayle’s ‘potatoe’ goof so obnoxious was that he was trying to correct some kid who had actually spelled it correctly. It’s one thing to not know, it’s another to be wrong and still think you know better than someone else. Anyway Quayle had some other classics that helped make his image what it was.