WaPo Fact Checker: Shouldn't a Presidential Candidate, Like, Know Stuff?
Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:09:36 am PDT
The Wa****ngton Post "Fact Checker" has been going very easy on Barack
Obama,
but today they're actually asking the pertinent question about Obama's
"Auschwitz" tale: Where in the world is Auschwitz? - Fact Checker.
Granted, it is getting late in the campaign. The candidates are tired, and
prone to making silly mistakes. Many Americans might have problems
distingui****ng Buchenwald and Ohrdruf from Auschwitz. But should we not
expect more from a Harvard-educated presidential candidate? Is it too much
to ask that an aspiring commander-in-chief knows (1) that Auschwitz (like
many of the other Nazi death camps) is in Poland, and (2) that the eastern
advance of the U.S. Army in World War II stopped on the river Elbe? Let me
know what you think.
Yes, we should expect more from any presidential candidate, not just one
educated at Harvard. I've written several times that I suspect Barack
Obama
of being almost completely ignorant of world history. All it would take to
reveal the depths of this ignorance would be a few serious historical
questions from a re****ter who isn't blinded by the messiah's halo-but
nobody
seems to care.
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"Impeachment is off the table" Nancy Pelosi
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