“This is a trip that he chose, not because of me I’m sure, but for political reasons.”
May 29th, 2009
Looks like Obama comes by his reflexive dishonesty…uhh, honestly:
SPIEGEL: At first Mr. Obama claimed that one of his family members was involved in the liberation (of) Auschwitz. How did this misunderstanding come about?
Payne: He couldn’t have gotten it from me since we had never talked about this particular episode in the war. My sister and her husband were both great storytellers and sometimes made up the details to go along with it.
As Jules notes, Payne is not only Obama’s great-uncle, but a lifelong Democrat — and a mite too honest for his great-nephew’s own good.
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