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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (489103)	5/30/2012 11:02:27 AM
From: DMaA	5 Recommendations Respond to of 794015

I wonder if his Polish remark was off the cuff or he read it from a teleprompter. His staff is every bit as stupid as he is.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (489103)	5/30/2012 11:22:10 AM
From: Noone226	6 Recommendations Respond to of 794015

Obama on Tuesday labeled the Nazi facility used to process Jews for extermination as a "Polish death camp." The White House later said the president "misspoke" and expressed "regret". If Dan Quayle, or Gerald Ford, or Ronald Reagan, or George Bush had said that, it would be headline news for a week, and the gaff would be the topic of late-night humor for even longer. Left-leaning pundits would add it to their list of 'proof that this right-wing politician has the IQ of a cucumber' and ... most tragic ... a certain segment of the populace would parrot that mantra. I also believe that the average posters on this site knows more about American and world history (real American and world history -- not the leftist revisionist brand) than their president does.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (489103)	5/30/2012 11:28:36 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794015

did we get a 'president misspoke and regrets' statement on calling the falklands the maldives when he was trying to impress with malvinas????

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (489103)	5/30/2012 12:22:04 PM
From: MJ	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794015

Linguistic faux pas---------no this is just plain ignorance on Obama's part. Obama is a graduate of Harvard . He has insulted every friendly country that America has supported through the decades. Harvard should demand an apology form Obama for demonstrating his ignorance of the world and America. Better yet, Harvard Graduates can say no to Obama and not vote for him in November. The linguistic faux pas overshadowed Obama's posthumous award of the highest US civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Jan Karski, a former Polish underground officer who provided early eyewitness accounts of Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews.http://news.yahoo.com/obama-nazi-death-camp-gaffe-hurt-poles-pm-110505006.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CZgB8ZP_i0AndzQtDMD

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (489103)	5/30/2012 2:01:58 PM
From: DMaA	5 Recommendations Respond to of 794015

Even more ominous (for Barry) than the Polish Government's outrage, Polish-American Voters are plenty P.O.ed too: suntimes.com Poles outraged by Obama’s reference to ‘Polish death camp’ BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter apallasch@suntimes.com May 30, 2012 11:46AM Updated: May 30, 2012 12:11PM President Barack Obama’s accidental reference to a “Polish death camp” in a ceremony honoring a Polish resistance fighter during World War II is causing a diplomatic dust-up just a week after Obama’s warm greeting of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski at the NATO Summit in Chicago. Poles and Polish-Americans are having a tough time accepting Obama’s apology — the White House said he should have referred to “Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland” — for the gaffe Tuesday. They say they have spent a lot of time correcting the historical record that Poles, like Jews, were victims of the Nazis — not architects or staffers of the death camps during the Holocaust. “If a Harvard graduate can’t get that straight, shame on him. It’s unacceptable,” said Illinois Appellate Court Justice Aurelia Pucinski. “On the walk of honor at the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, there are more names of Polish citizens who, at the threat of death, helped Jews escape from the Nazis, than any other nationality.” Anecdotes of some Poles collaborating with the Nazis to turn over Jews have some times over the years overshadowed the better-documented histories of Poles aiding and sheltering Jews, said Poles and Polish-Americans. Chicago Attorney John Pikarski headed up Polish-Americans for Obama. But he thinks the president needs a White House Summit with Jews and Poles to straighten out this slight. “I’m a former co-chair of the Polish-American, Jewish-American National Council dialogue and this is one of the things that we worked for 20 years to eradicate,” Pikarski said. “The president really needs to do something significant to heal the wounds ... maybe have a conference at the White House for some prominent Jewish and Polish Americans. No slur was intended. But we have worked so hard to eradicate that term.”