[lbo-talk] the flag pin, etc.

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Tue May 27 19:08:01 PDT 2008


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> [from The Note]
>
> "Obama plans
> to use speeches and campaign events to reinforce his patriotic image
> to America by evoking his grandparent's military background.

He isn't doing a bang-up job of it:

"Barack Obama, at a Memorial Day event in Las Cruces, N.M., credited his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, as being among the U.S. troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.

"The trouble with that bit of history is -- as the Republican National Committee pointed out today -- is that the Soviet Red Army was the military force that liberated the World War II death camp."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/the-nazi-death.html

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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