Another Stupid Foreign Policy Moment...

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1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

MOST Concentration camps were put outside Germany to HIDE what the Nazi's were doing from the German Public...the SAME as Hitler's 'Wolf's Lair' fortress was locted IN Poland.

It's disingenuous...and ANY POTUS worth thier salt wouln't have accepted the Teleprompter crap they were fed IF they knew ANYTHING of history.

I find it unacceptable and COWARDICE.
 
So the Holocaust joins Judicial Review as something every adult, except our President, knows
 
So the Holocaust joins Judicial Review as something every adult, except our President, knows

"The U.S. has had such a comparatively happy history that it's hard to think of a domestic analogy that would capture what Poles feel when the worst crimes of their worst oppressors are attributed—not to the authors—but to them. "The Hawaiian sneak attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor" is a pathetically inadequate approximation, but at least it gets the grammar of the insult."
It Wasn't a "Gaffe" - The Daily Beast


Does this move Dan Quayle out of the 'dumbest remark" first place?
 
So the Holocaust joins Judicial Review as something every adult, except our President, knows

"The U.S. has had such a comparatively happy history that it's hard to think of a domestic analogy that would capture what Poles feel when the worst crimes of their worst oppressors are attributed—not to the authors—but to them. "The Hawaiian sneak attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor" is a pathetically inadequate approximation, but at least it gets the grammar of the insult."
It Wasn't a "Gaffe" - The Daily Beast


Does this move Dan Quayle out of the 'dumbest remark" first place?

It removes many from thier past idiocy, living or dead to account.

Obama has alot to explain and NOT through his Press briefing Mouthpiece Carney that has been having problems of late.
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.

The Polish Prime Minister has every right to seek an apology from Obama.
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.

The Polish Prime Minister has every right to seek an apology from Obama.

He got an apology.
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.

"But to say that this has been a public relations disaster for the Obama administration would be an understatement....anger builds across the Atlantic as well as at home among the 10 million-strong Polish American community in the United States."
Polish PM blasts Barack Obama



As Nile Gardiner points out in the Telegraph:

"President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf on the day of the funeral of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish First Lady, and 94 senior officials who perished in the Smolensk air disaster. Eight months earlier he humiliated Warsaw by pulling out of the agreement over Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic…. [Now] the president’s use of the term “Polish death camp” … will reinforce the growing image across Eastern and Central Europe of an American presidency that cares little for key US allies, especially against the backdrop of its controversial and weak-kneed “reset” policy towards Russia."
Obama
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.

"But to say that this has been a public relations disaster for the Obama administration would be an understatement....anger builds across the Atlantic as well as at home among the 10 million-strong Polish American community in the United States."
Polish PM blasts Barack Obama



As Nile Gardiner points out in the Telegraph:

"President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf on the day of the funeral of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish First Lady, and 94 senior officials who perished in the Smolensk air disaster. Eight months earlier he humiliated Warsaw by pulling out of the agreement over Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic…. [Now] the president’s use of the term “Polish death camp” … will reinforce the growing image across Eastern and Central Europe of an American presidency that cares little for key US allies, especially against the backdrop of its controversial and weak-kneed “reset” policy towards Russia."
Obama

Hmm.. Aren't there large communities of Americans of Polish descent in several states that Obama badly needs to carry? Places like Pennsylvania and Michigan?
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.

Obama Fluffers are the same the world over
 
He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.

"But to say that this has been a public relations disaster for the Obama administration would be an understatement....anger builds across the Atlantic as well as at home among the 10 million-strong Polish American community in the United States."
Polish PM blasts Barack Obama



As Nile Gardiner points out in the Telegraph:

"President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf on the day of the funeral of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish First Lady, and 94 senior officials who perished in the Smolensk air disaster. Eight months earlier he humiliated Warsaw by pulling out of the agreement over Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic…. [Now] the president’s use of the term “Polish death camp” … will reinforce the growing image across Eastern and Central Europe of an American presidency that cares little for key US allies, especially against the backdrop of its controversial and weak-kneed “reset” policy towards Russia."
Obama

Hmm.. Aren't there large communities of Americans of Polish descent in several states that Obama badly needs to carry? Places like Pennsylvania and Michigan?



Yeah, and many of them work in the auto industry. :lol::lol:
 
1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment

For those who don't understand the outrage....the Nazis killed millions of Polish Jews and millions of Polish Christians, as well...

8. "The best-kept secret in the U.S. about the Holocaust is that Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews."
Holocaust: 3 Million Holocaust Victims Were Non-Jews

9. "In the early years, most prisoners at Auschwitz were Poles, not Jews."
Ibid.


Another day, another foreign policy gaffe.....


One greets each day, waiting for our Liberal and Democrat friends to have the "What have I done?" moment....




Wasn't there some anti-Bush gabble about a new President restoring world respect for America?

He has, and it is time for the Polish Prime Minister to accept the apology and get over it. That is the feeling over here in Europe, it should not have been made into such a big deal.

"But to say that this has been a public relations disaster for the Obama administration would be an understatement....anger builds across the Atlantic as well as at home among the 10 million-strong Polish American community in the United States."
Polish PM blasts Barack Obama



As Nile Gardiner points out in the Telegraph:

"President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf on the day of the funeral of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish First Lady, and 94 senior officials who perished in the Smolensk air disaster. Eight months earlier he humiliated Warsaw by pulling out of the agreement over Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic…. [Now] the president’s use of the term “Polish death camp” … will reinforce the growing image across Eastern and Central Europe of an American presidency that cares little for key US allies, especially against the backdrop of its controversial and weak-kneed “reset” policy towards Russia."
Obama

Anyone I have spoken to on this side of the Atlantic thinks that it was a simple mistake and the Polish Prime Minister is over reacting.
 
Yeah it was a gaffe and certainly Obama's correction ought to be clear and definite, too.

No nation in Europe suffered more than Poland at the hands of the NAZI scum.

You can bet your ass if Obama had mistakenly called one of the NAZI death camps a JEWISH death camp, the world would be up in arms.

Well calling the NAZI camps in Poland Polish death camps is the same egregious error
 
I knew two Polish women who still had their numbers on their arm, but let's be honest here. The camps were in Poland and many Poles assisted the Nazis, it was that way in many areas. Evil is the reason we require hell. war and social upheaval: World War II -- the Holocaust in the Poland

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