May 28, 2008

Dumb and Dumber
Just when you think you've heard one candidate say what has to be the most stupid thing possible, their rival says something even more stupid.

Take Hillary Clinton's statement about her reason for staying in the race:

"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

Well, Obama not one to be outdone said this on Memorial Day:

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes-and I see many of them in the audience here today-our sense of patriotism is particularly strong..."

Yeah Obama, just where should we bury survivors? But he didn't stop there. No. Then he went on to talk about a relative of his and their service in World War II:

"I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps and the story in my family is that when he came home, he just went into the attic, and he didn't leave the house for six months. Alright? Now, obviously something had affected him deeply, but at the time, there just weren't the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain."

A couple of problems with his story. Firstly, Obama doesn't have an Uncle, More importantly, the Americans didn't liberate Auschwitz, the Russians did.

TLG

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