But, Obama said "Auschwitz" when he meant "Buchenwald"
From Scotty McClellans's new book:
Meanwhile, over in Camp McCain:
In other UBS news:
And McCain wants to run against Obama by calling him an elitist.
UPDATE: Turns out we don't have to pay attention to Scotty McClellan's new book after all. He's just disgruntled.
“History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”
Meanwhile, over in Camp McCain:
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal records show.
“Countdown with Keith Olbermann” reported Tuesday night that lobbying disclosure forms, filed by the giant Swiss bank UBS, list McCain’s campaign co-chair, former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, as a lobbyist dealing specifically with legislation regarding the mortgage crisis as recently as Dec. 31, 2007.
Gramm joined the bank in 2002 and had registered as a lobbyist by 2004. UBS filed paperwork deregistering Gramm on April 18 of this year. Gramm continues to serve as a UBS vice chairman.
News of Gramm’s involvement as a paid advocate for the banking industry, simultaneous with his unpaid work on McCain’s economic policies, comes as McCain’s campaign continues to reel from the purge of four other lobbyists. Two weeks ago, McCain banned lobbyists from advising him on the same subjects covered by their lobbying work.
In other UBS news:
UBS has told members of its former private banking team responsible for rich US clients not to travel to America.
The Swiss bank has also made lawyers available to the more than 50 bankers involved, many of whom have left UBS since it decided last November to wind down its cross-border private banking business for US customers.
The move follows the recent indictment of one of the unit’s former senior executives, Bradley Birkenfeld, who US authorities have accused of helping a billionaire client evade taxes. Mr Birkenfeld has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have made no public statement on the matter.
And McCain wants to run against Obama by calling him an elitist.
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UPDATE: Turns out we don't have to pay attention to Scotty McClellan's new book after all. He's just disgruntled.
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We know that the Kenyan side of the family wasn't in the U.S. military in WWII. Since Obama's mother was an only child, I want to learn more about this mysterious uncle of his.
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Locomotive Breath, at 3:12 PM
Obama sez:
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.
He can raise soldiers from the dead! With a miracle like that I just know he's the Messiah. Or could it be he doesn't have a clue about the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day?
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Locomotive Breath, at 4:33 PM
Locobreath....you claim to be a Southerner and you don't know that siblings of grandparents would be called aunts and uncles in casual conversation?
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MK, at 4:54 PM
Obama is not from the South. On this blog, figures of speech are routinely interpreted literally so as to ridicule those who used them, so I'm just following the rules.
Was Obama's great uncle a "typical white guy"? Liberating the oppressed from tyranny and all that? If this is a treasured family story you'd think he could remember which concentration camp was liberated. Or maybe it was a Freudian slip in which Obama was wishing that his "uncle" was serving in the Red Army because that would get more traction with certain elements of the Dem party.
I want to visit all 57 states too.
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Locomotive Breath, at 5:31 PM
Oh, sweet jesus christ on a pogo stick. My grandparents lived in the Bronx, and i called all of their brothers and sisters my aunts and uncles.
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Barry, at 6:13 PM
Sorry, on this blog we must have one standard and take everything literally even though most people would understand the implied meaning.
So far we know that Obama's "uncle" marched with the Red Army and that he can raise America's war casualties from the dead.
To continue...
Obama sez:
Obama conceded that he has a steep challenge to get his message and background to voters in states such as Kentucky — where he trails Sen. Hillary Clinton by 27 points, according to a poll published earlier this week — and West Virginia, where voters chose Clinton over Obama by 40 points on Tuesday.
"What it says is that I'm not very well known in that part of the country," Obama said. "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."
Uhh, considering Illinois has a common border with Kentucky most people would consider that to be "nearer".
Having lived in Chicagoland where there is a lot of urban snobbery towards downstate rural folks, I can tell you what he really meant is that Kentucky and West Virginia are culturally nearer to Arkansas in the sense that both are full of people where it's "not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
If GWB had said things this stupid Ragin would be all over them as an indicator of low intelligence. Maybe Obama's not smarter than a 5th grader.
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Locomotive Breath, at 6:31 AM
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