For all the talk about what a great speaker he is, he sure doesn’t let the facts get in the way…
Obama has quite a history of just plain making stuff up in hopes of currying favor with voters. He told people in Selma, Alabama that the results of the 1965 civil rights march led to his parents marrying and having him — although he was born in 1961. He tried to make hay out of a natural disaster when he said a Kansas tornado wiped out a whole town and killed 10,000 people (about five and a half times the total death toll from Hurricane Katrina), when the death toll was 12. And he talked about his personal sense of “racial awakening” being brought about by an article in Life Magazine about the horrific physical and pyschological scarring a black man had suffered trying to “lighten” himself — an article that never existed.
So, here’s Obama in a Memorial Day address, claiming a non-existent relative in the US Army participated in something that the US Army didn’t even do. Does it get any crasser than that?
Not so fast. It turns out that this was not shameless pandering, but a couple of genuine misstatements by Obama.
Go read the whole thing. Wizbang is very fair and charitable about Obama’s “misspeaks.” The amazing part, at least for me, is how damn many of them there are.