commotiocordis | (no subject)

IL all this outrage at Obama saying Auschwitz when he meant Buchenwald when he was talking about how his great-uncle was one of the Americans in the army who did the liberating and came back all PTSD'd. A, the man probably just couldn't come up with the name Buchenwald. It's not like that's one you hear all that often. B, along the same lines, if he'd thrown the name Buchenwald out there, how many people do you think would have jumped immediately on the mental bandwagon to concentration camp? Even if he did it on purpose, the point of the story wasn't a history lesson in the family of the great and all-powerful Obama, but to talk about how the issue of dealing with people coming back from the war is one that we've known about forever--hell, I could tell you my own family stories about the Civil War and great-x-whatever grandfather and/or siblings (okay, so I'd probably have to ask my mother's help in telling you the family stories) coming back 6 months late not knowing where they'd been for the missing time, they were so screwed up after it--and even though we know tons more about what the problem is and neuropsychology/biology as a whole, we're still really no closer to fixing the issue because war's a bitch. C, who cares?

But LOL, I could have told you that Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets. I wish I'd have been there when he said that, because I would have laughed and laughed; Castro mentioned that his supporting Obama would only hurt him in his candidacy because of the whole Communism thing, and here's Obama himself putting one of his relatives squarely on the side of the reds.