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| − | According to the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', during his 12 years in politics, Obama had received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted<ref name=RCTWOS>[http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/432197,CST-NWS-obama18.article Rezko cash triple what Obama says] ''Chicago Sun-Times'', June 18, 2007</ref> slumlord<ref>Charles R. Smith, [http://www.newsmax.com/smith/barack_obama_tony_rezko/2008/09/02/126890.html Obama's Connection to Slumlord Tony Rezko] ''Newsmax.com'', September 2, 2008</ref> Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged.<ref name=RCTWOS/> | + | According to the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', during his 12 years in politics, Obama had received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted<ref name=RCTWOS>[http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/432197,CST-NWS-obama18.article Rezko cash triple what Obama says] ''Chicago Sun-Times'', June 18, 2007</ref> slumlord<ref>Charles R. Smith, [http://www.newsmax.com/smith/barack_obama_tony_rezko/2008/09/02/126890.html Obama's Connection to Slumlord Tony Rezko] ''Newsmax.com'', September 2, 2008</ref> Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged.<ref name=RCTWOS/> Rezko has been a political patron to Obama and they are friends for 17 years.<ref>[http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article Obama and his Rezko ties] ''Chicago Sun-Times'', April 23, 2007</ref> |
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Revision as of 12:22, 21 October 2008
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the United States presidential election of 2008.
Contents
Controversies
Claim on Auschwitz concentration camp
On Memorial Day[1] in 2008 Obama claimed, "I had an uncle who was one of the — who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps. And the story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months". But the fact is that the US military never liberated Auschwitz, the Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz in January, 1945. This comment by Obama ignited a huge controversy in the blogosphere.[2] Later the Obama campaign said he had confused Auschwitz with another concentration camp,[1] he actually meant to say Buchenwald, which was liberated by U.S. troops in April of 1945.[2]
Claim in his memoir
In his memoir Dreams From My Father, Obama claimed he read a Life magazine article[3] about an African-American man[4] who made attempt to whiten his skin through some sort of chemical process. The consequence was a disaster[3] and the man was physically and mentally scarred. But Life magazine's own historians said the magazine never published such an article.[4]
Iraq War
Obama said that he always opposed the Iraq War since 2002, a claim that former US President Bill Clinton described as "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."[5]
Campaign cash from slumlord Rezko
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, during his 12 years in politics, Obama had received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted[6] slumlord[7] Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged.[6] Rezko has been a political patron to Obama and they are friends for 17 years.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Obama Campaign Scrambles to Correct the Record on Uncle's War Service Elections.foxnews.com, May 27, 2008
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Obama: Uncle Helped Liberate Auschwitz FOX News, May 28, 2008
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Richard Cohen, Obama's Back Story The Washington Post, March 27, 2007
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2007
- ↑ Bill Clinton defends "fairy tale" remark on Obama Reuters, January 11, 2008
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rezko cash triple what Obama says Chicago Sun-Times, June 18, 2007
- ↑ Charles R. Smith, Obama's Connection to Slumlord Tony Rezko Newsmax.com, September 2, 2008
- ↑ Obama and his Rezko ties Chicago Sun-Times, April 23, 2007
