The Conservative Soldier

And here we thought Rev. Jeremiah Wright was the crazy old uncle.

Turns out another of Sen. Barack H. Obama’s so-called uncles was the real nutjob. He shows up, the Senator reports in a recent tale from the stump, at Auschwitz of all places while doing a military tour during World War II. We learn later (from Obama damage control, aka, Uncle Watch) that the Soviet Red Army already was signed on to liberate the Nazi’s prison guests at Auschwitz.

So we are left to imagine that, like Forrest Gump, the Obama uncle did a wartime cameo on behalf of U.S. forces. A nose for photo-ops must run in the family.

Maybe he forgot to change trains in Munich en route to Buchenwald.

Obama, during his campaign gaffe du jour, also mentioned that the uncle (apparently, a great uncle) came home from the WWII theater and locked himself in the house for six months. We’ll never know if this is accurate, but we can only assume that Obama was confusing the past with what he’d wished for Uncle Jeremiah. An attic with a view.