DNC Defends Obama: John MCCain's Top 10 Gaffes

[malik flavors]

May 28, 2008
Categories: Obama

All but conceding Dem primary is over, DNC turns to Obama defense


They don't say the name of their likely nominee in the press release, but the DNC is effectively coming to the defense of Barack Obama for the first time today.

Citing what they call John McCain's "troubling pattern of flubbing key facts and echoing obviously false statements about his own record," the committee has put out a Top 10 of McCain's "misstatements and outright deceptions."

The move comes one day after Obama was hammered by the RNC and right-wing voices for falsely claiming his uncle helped liberate Auschwtiz -- it was a great uncle and Buchenwald -- and as conservatives buzz about a pattern of embellishments.

1. McCain doesn't even know who is in charge in Iran.
2. Iraq/Iran, Sunni/Shia: McCain doesn't know the difference.
3. McCain still thinks Czechoslovakia (which split into two countries in 1993) exists.
4. McCain wrongly claimed that Baghdad was mostly normal.
5. McCain called Baghdad market safe.
6. McCain can't even remember how little he knows about the economy.
7. McCain falsely claimed he never requested pork.
8. McCain falsely claimed that tax cuts increased government revenues.
9. McCain's claim to be untainted by special interest money is false.
10. McCain wrongly claimed he never supported amnesty.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/All_but_conceding_Dem_primary_is_over_DNC_turns_to_Obama_defense.html

The Memo is in response to this:

The RNC's Obama gaffe listPosted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:37 AM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Republicans, 2008, Obama
From NBC's Mark Murray

Earlier this morning, pegged to Obama's Auschwitz gaffe, we listed some of Obama's other minor misstatements (saying that JFK had helped bring his father to the US; confusing Sioux City with Sioux Falls; calling Sunrise, FL Sunshine, FL; etc.)

Well, the Republican National Committee has released its own Obama gaffe list, which also includes:
-- Obama's claim that the 1965 Selma march brought his parents together (when Obama had been born four years before the march)
-- His boast that he helped pass legislation regulating the nuclear industry (when that legislation didn't pass the full Senate).

Again, these are minor misstatements. But it's clear that the RNC is trying to build the case that Obama is a gaffe-prone candidate. Of course, the downside to that strategy is that it gives your own candidate -- McCain -- little room for error, too.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/28/1070606.aspx

[anonymous171]

1. 3 is my favorite.

[papau]

2. No - it was not even Buchenwald - but the media is giving Obama a pass as always

Obama actually was speaking of his grandmother's brother, Charlie Payne, assigned to the 89th Infantry Division.

Charlie Payne's enlistment records:

Charles W. Payne, born 1924, enlisted 10Nov42, Navy, 6293977 Registered, order #12019, Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., Board #4

The only camp liberated by the 89th was Ohrdruf. While like all 88 subcamps (there may have been 130 subcamps administered by Buchenwald depending on definitions) located across Germany, from Düsseldorf in the Rhineland to the border with the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the east. the satellite sub camp administered by Buchenwald called Ohrdruf was a slave labor camp and not a death camp. However among the 112,000 forced laborers there was death at Buchenwald and its satellite camps with over 55,000 dying by starvation, medical experiments, and execution. Most of the prisoners there were Eastern Europeans, mainly Poles. Its only connection to Buchenwald was that it was a administrative satellite sub camp of that camp.

A detachment of troops belonging to the US 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, US 6th Armored Division, US Third Army arrived at Buchenwald on 13 April 1945 under the leadership of Captain Frederic Keffer. The squad entered the outer perimeter of the camp and reported its location to its higher ups, but did not investigate in great detail, moving on to complete other missions. On the same day, elements of the US 83rd Infantry Division overran Langenstein, one of a number of smaller camps comprising the Buchenwald complex.

So why is Obama being given a pass on "uncle" for his mother who was an only child, a pass on Auschwitz which his great-uncle Payne never got close to, and then getting a pass to exaggerate and call Ohrdruf, the satellite labor camp the 89Th did liberate, "Buchenwald" - which was not liberated by the 89th?

Has the media bias in favor of Obama that was seen in the disparate treatment of Hillary compared to Obama now been transferred to a general election bias in favor of Obama? Guess so.

[Spazito]

3. Congrats!! You have just won the....

Swiftboat act-alike contest! You must be SO proud of yourself.


:puke:

[malik flavors]

6. &

[anonymous171]

4. gb2 www.johnmccain.com

repug filth :puke:

[Max_powers94]

7. what Obama has done to you????

[smiley_glad_hands]

8. Cry me a river. eom

[truedelphi]

5. And the eleventh top ten reason why he should not be President

Can you imagine Mrs McCain as first lady??

[FSogol]

9. Wow, McSame's: The League of Nations didn't even make the list.

:crazy: