Michelle Obama says something even scarier...

[agricola]

He could have meant what I would call a great uncle or his grandfather's brother. 

Still the wrong camp and or completely made up.  Patton did overrun some camps as did a lot of the armies pushing into Germany.

thats what they are now saying, except the blogosphere has found out he has said similar things before: 

http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/05/its_nothing_new.html

edit:  no doubt hordes of journalists are descending on this charlie payne and his service records right now

edit:  he also says "i had an uncle...", which (at the risk of being pedantic) you would think should be "i have" - the "uncle" is still alive after all.  this really does not ring true.

[taurusowner]

Remember that one President that a certain side always makes fun of for bumbling speech and making mistakes?
Now we've got Mr. 57 states bumbling things left and farther left.
How come they aren't saying the things about Barrack Gaffe-Machine Obama?

[roo_ster]

Papal Obamian Infallibility.

If he says it, it must be true. [Please pass me another cup of that de-licious kool-aid.]

[MicroBalrog]

Essentially, Obama is going to beat himself.

McCain doesn't need Republican money, he can just sit there.

In fact, the Republicans could have run a drooling, paraplegic, blind and deaf cripple, and he would have still beat Obama.

[MechAg94]

Actually, I consider Obama a lightweight as a candidate on the national scene.  I would consider any of his opponents to be a shoe in to win, however, McCain has a lot of negatives still.  Is McCain strong enough to beat even this Obama?  I think he probably is, but it still will make it interesting and fairly close come election time.  Many in the media are going to do their best to make Obama look good and tear down McCain.  We'll see if that has much impact.

Republicans in Congress are a different matter all together.  I hear everyone predicting them to lose big. 

[Manedwolf]

Republicans in Congress are a different matter all together.  I hear everyone predicting them to lose big. 

That's what worries me. If there's a Democrat majority and Obama as president, they could care less about what people think. They would crow victory and pass their wildest dreams, from government seizure of oil companies to total bans on the sale of semiautomatic firearms, and Obama would sign them.

[longeyes]

There is no rational reason why Obama should be where he is right now.   There is no rational reason why Obama should win in November.

But win he may.  

This Election will be a referendum on American sanity and maturity.  It will tell us compellingly how far wrong we have gone with a culture that exacts too little for citizenship and, especially, suffrage.

[wmenorr67]

And you say you want a revolution.

Going to happen fast if that comes to play out.

[longeyes]

That's what worries me. If there's a Democrat majority and Obama as president, they could care less about what people think. They would crow victory and pass their wildest dreams, from government seizure of oil companies to total bans on the sale of semiautomatic firearms, and Obama would sign them.

This is a time of Unreason, and Obama is surfing this wave.  He is the darling of "the kids," some of whom are sexagenarians who should know better, and the eternally young Left.  He is the Utopian who inevitably brings The Terror.  An Obama Presidency, backed by a Democratic Congressional majority, will put into bold relief everything we have been talking about, mostly on a theoretical level, on this and other forums for a long time.  We should have seen it coming; you can't ignore the responsibilities of good citizenship and imbue your youth with corrupt ideas and not realize you are deconstructing your own nation.  Was blind but now we see.

[De Selby]

Before we get too carried away with calling Americans insane for supporting Obama, it's important to remember that McCain is basically promising to continue the Bush policies. 

Considering that these policies are terribly unpopular, it would be odd for McCain to steamroll Obama on those grounds alone.

[Manedwolf]

Before we get too carried away with calling Americans insane for supporting Obama, it's important to remember that McCain is basically promising to continue the Bush policies. 

Considering that these policies are terribly unpopular, it would be odd for McCain to steamroll Obama on those grounds alone.

Frying pan, fire.

[De Selby]

Before we get too carried away with calling Americans insane for supporting Obama, it's important to remember that McCain is basically promising to continue the Bush policies. 

Considering that these policies are terribly unpopular, it would be odd for McCain to steamroll Obama on those grounds alone.

Frying pan, fire.

While I think that's true, it's by no means an obvious conclusion. 

[MechAg94]

McCain has his warts, but some of Obama's negatives such as the Rev. Wright mess are major to many Americans.  I don't think McCain will run away with this one, but I can't see Obama winning unless McCain just does something really dumb. 

I haven't seen statistics, but I heard that Obama hasn't won a majority of the white vote in his primaries since the Wright stuff came out.  If true, that is significant since we are talking about Dem primaries. 

[Manedwolf]

McCain has his warts, but some of Obama's negatives such as the Rev. Wright mess are major to many Americans.  I don't think McCain will run away with this one, but I can't see Obama winning unless McCain just does something really dumb. 

I haven't seen statistics, but I heard that Obama hasn't won a majority of the white vote in his primaries since the Wright stuff came out.  If true, that is significant since we are talking about Dem primaries. 

Wright is but a footnote. Obama has said scarier things on his own recently, a whole lot of collectivist talk that's right out of Marx. It scares the crap out of me. He's not even "American", he's an internationalist.

[MechAg94]

Yeah, but the Wright stuff goes back to the "racial healing" stuff people were talking about earlier this year.  A lot of voters would love to vote for a good black candidate, but would likely avoid a candidate they think will have a chip on his shoulder regarding race.  I do think that is but one component, but it is there.

I agree on the communist talking points.  I am just not sure most Americans still see it as scary.  I guess more older voters would and those are the ones more likely to vote. 

[longeyes]

The have-nots and sorry-to-haves love Obama; the rest do not.  Marxism looks good when you have nothing to have expropriated and figure you'll get some freebies out of it.  That's an increasing chunk of our culture.  Then there are the naively comfortable who want to feel good about themselves but haven't understood that the "enemy" of the Left is THEM.  Parasites and useful idiots, more all the time.