Obama’s Uncle Thinks D-Day Site Selection Is Political

During the campaign Barack Obama told a story about an uncle who served in WWII. The story Obama told was designed to show his family roots and that his family had people who served this country (no one I know of made any claim to the contrary. Obama, on the other hand…) . The story was wrong as Obama evidently did not discuss it with Uncle Charles Payne.

Now Payne says that Obama’s selection of Buchenwald for his D-Day speech was politically motivated:

“This is a trip that he chose, not because of me I’m sure, but for political reasons,” Charles Payne told the German magazine Spiegel. “Perhaps his visit also has something to do with improving his standing with (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel. She gave him a hard time during his campaign and also afterwards.”

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Payne, 84, is no stranger to Americans: The Obama campaign used his WWII experiences last year to burnish the candidate’s all-American upbringing. But Obama made a gaffe when he said his great uncle liberated Auschwitz. In fact, Payne was part of the force that liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in April 1945. Newsmax

Was there ever any doubt that what he does is always politically motivated?

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