Obama’s so-called gaffe
12 comments May 27th, 2008
Barack Obama said the other day that his great uncle was with the first group of U.S. troops to liberate a Nazi concentration camp toward the end of World War II.
That’s true, but Obama got the NAME OF THE CAMP wrong. It was Ohrdruf (pictured above), a subcamp of the more infamous Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Obama mistakenly said it was Auschwitz, which was in Poland.
The Obama campaign corrected the mistake the following day, but Republicans are trying to turn it into a big scandal. Some overwrought guy at NewsBusters.org has even accused Obama of “an insult to mankind,” simply because Ohrdruf was smaller than Auschwitz.
Insult to mankind!