In Defense of Barak Obama

[Professor S]

There was much hub-bub made this week about Barak Obama making the statement that his uncle helped free Auschwitz concentration camp during WW2, when it was the Russians who did so with no American serviceman in sight...

So did Obama lie about it?

Hell. No.

The truth is it was his GREAT uncle who helped free Buchenwald (sp?) during WW2. Obama misspoke. When you speak for a living, this can happen. The truth of the comment remains firm, saying that his family had experience with such things, it just came out a little wrong. It means nothing at all.

But it seems like the media wants to harp on every little thing anyone ever says or is mildly associated with, and ignore anything that matters. Examples:

Cinton's Assassination Comments - Listen to her in context, and while the analogy was awkward and poorly chosen, to read anything into the comments other than "anything can happen" is to create a fiction to meet political agendas.

McCain and Hagee - McCain has a non-political association with a ministry he has never been a member of, and now McCain is held accountable for every word Hagee says (and Hagee is OFTEN taken out of context to boot).

Obama and William Ayers - It seems like people want to paint Obama as a domestic terrorist because he happened to be in the same room with the guy at a fundraiser 10 years ago and dared to say "hello". William Ayers is a scumbag and a murderer, but loose association that owes more to geographic location than personal involvement does not translate that to Obama.

This is why I can't wait for the debates to begin for the general election, so that we can start seeing the real differences between these candidates based on tax reform, healthcare, national defense and foreign relations and not the gotcha bullshit that we're hearing now.

[Jason1]

I actually agree. Im most familar with that recent Hiliary incident, and I remember hearing it, and thinking that she really didnt say anything wrong, and she definatley didnt mean it in the way the media tries to put a spin on it.

[Jonbo298]

Gotcha bullshit is what cost John Kerry the election pretty much (Swiftboat). Media and politicians will spin things so that idiots will remember something totally irrelevant, rather then the real things that matter.

Then the idiots remember that 'horrible bad thing' when they vote, rather then a candidates good ideologies on how to fix economy or healthcare, etc...It'll always be that way unfortunately, as long as idiots who don't look at the real issues at hand are allowed to vote.

[Renwood]

If you're going to defend the man, spell his name right. :P