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I’ll confess that I’ve kinda drank the “Obama Change” Kool-Aid.  It’s probably my last-ditch effort of not becoming completely jaded by the Federal Government.

Then Tuesday rolled around.  On Memorial Day, Obama made the claim that one of his Uncles helped liberate Auschwitz.  Number of things wrong with that; his mother was an only child and Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians.

I swear, I have no idea what makes these politicians tick.  One of two things has happened here: either it was a complete gaffe, in which case he should have listened more to his elders when he was a child or it was just a show to try to 1-up McCain, which would have been at best futile and at worst pathetic.  Why didn’t he just say something like, “I can’t imagine the horrors of war.  I honor you today.  When I’m Commander-in-Chief, I will only use you to preserve our way of life and you can leave your homes knowing your family is taken care of and when you come home, we’ll take care of you.”  Sometimes the flowery rhetoric he comes up with needs to be better honed, in my opinion.