# Arbeit Macht Frei: Obama and AuschwitzGate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148 "2008-05-30T15:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/61 "2008-05-31T05:33:41Z")
[QUOTE=Leaper] How weak this story is doesn’t matter. It’ll be touted by his opponents as PART OF A LONG PATTERN OF GAFFES AND OUTRIGHT LIES! From here until the end of time, it’ll be part of a list (with no accompanying explanation of course) that’ll be released every once in a while just to “remind” people. [/QUOTE] We have a winner! That’s exactly what will happen. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/62 "2008-05-31T06:18:34Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] In my family there was an aunt that was a somewhat pivotal and popular figure. Everyone has referred to her as “Aunt Clementine.” [/QUOTE] Ditto Uncle Mike in my family. He was actually (if I remember correctly) my grandfather’s first cousin. But everybody called him Uncle Mike. I guess that makes us all perjurers or something. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/63 "2008-05-31T07:15:56Z")
It’s no big deal. But neither was Hillary’s “dodging snipers” story. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/64 "2008-05-31T15:53:47Z")
And Al Gore inspired “Love Story,” and John Kerry drinks green tea. Throw…wall…stick… P.S. Happy 96th birthday, Aunt Betty! She’s the widow of the brother of my maternal grandfather. Which makes me a LIAR. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/65 "2008-05-31T15:59:08Z")
The main character in _Love Story_ really was partially based on Al Gore. That was true. The author (who was a freind of Gore’s at Harvard) said the character was a composite of Al Gore and Gore’s college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/66 "2008-05-31T17:06:10Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] It’s no big deal. But neither was Hillary’s “dodging snipers” story. [/QUOTE] Clinton’s “dodging snipers” story was an outright fabrication. Obama’s uncle really did take part in liberating an concentration camp, and really did suffer from PTSD. Small difference, I guess. Clinton supporters really seem to have trouble distinguishing between reality and made-up crap, a trait they share with Clinton herself. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/67 "2008-05-31T17:16:48Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] The main character in _Love Story_ really was partially based on Al Gore. That was true. The author (who was a freind of Gore’s at Harvard) said the character was a composite of Al Gore and Gore’s college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones. [/QUOTE] Did you all see that? “Partially!” Democrats are waffling flipflopping LIARS, I tell ya… ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/68 "2008-05-31T18:16:06Z")
[QUOTE=E. Thorp] Did you all see that? “Partially!” Democrats are waffling flipflopping LIARS, I tell ya… [/QUOTE] What REALLY got me is that when Erich Segal finally made a public statement to clarify, some people actually accused him of twisting the REAL truth so Gore wouldn’t get hurt. _head explodes_ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/69 "2008-05-31T18:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] My dad had both an aunt and an uncle (three actually). 2 of which I got to know well when I was growing up, and us kids never called them “Great-Uncle George” or whatever (that was the actual name of one of them). Someone needs to release a **Nitpicker’s Guide to the 2008 Election**. [/QUOTE] This is a Capital idea! I would buy it. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/70 "2008-06-01T03:00:32Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] Well at work camps they kept the workers undernourished to save resources. When someone would die they would simply replace them. [/QUOTE] Your point is? 'Cause somehow I don’t think being worked to death while your being starved to death is/was even slightly better than getting marched straight to the ovens. CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/71 "2008-06-01T07:20:13Z")
Exactly, **crowmanyclouds**. If anyone is going to try to pretend that a “work camp” was a nice, neat little office space where prisoners were held to only _three_ lumps of sugar in their tea while they, I dunno, graded term papers and weeded the herb garden and did some light housecleaning, but otherwise got three squares, fresh socks, and plenty of rest… no. That person is only trying to fool himself. [This guy wrote a book](http://www.amazon.com/Letter-Descendants-Niels-Aage-Skov/dp/8778383293/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212304713&sr=8-2) about being in “just a work camp.” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/72 "2008-06-01T07:45:03Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Huh? [/QUOTE] Username - post. I’ll be here all week, don’t forget to tip your waitress. ---
**Author:** ![puppygod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@puppygod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puppygod)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/73 "2008-06-01T14:54:59Z")
[QUOTE=pepperlandgirl] I thought his uncle was Hitler. It’s getting hard to keep track here. [/QUOTE] No. You got it wrong. Obama IS Hitler. He owns his life to signing pact with the devil and his appearance to transplanting skin pigments from Michael Jackson in the '80s. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/74 "2008-06-01T19:26:12Z")
[QUOTE=puppygod] No. You got it wrong. Obama IS Hitler. He owns his life to signing pact with the devil and his appearance to transplanting skin pigments from Michael Jackson in the '80s. [/QUOTE] You know, if I wasn’t confident some idiot would believe this, I’d totally dig up “facts” connecting the two and send out a chain email. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/75 "2008-06-01T21:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=Jragon] You know, if I wasn’t confident some idiot would believe this, I’d totally dig up “facts” connecting the two and send out a chain email. [/QUOTE] Have you ever seen them in the same room together? No. The evidence is clear! ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/76 "2008-06-01T21:17:09Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Have you ever seen them in the same room together? No. The evidence is clear! [/QUOTE] Bullshit. How can he be Hitler when he’s **really** a lizard-like space alien? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/77 "2008-06-01T21:25:58Z")
(shakes head) Joe, Joe, Joe… Don’t you realize that all of humanity’s problems are being engineered by those same lizard-like space aliens? It’s their way of keeping us down. So, Obama and Hitler are the _same_ lizard-like space alien. It’s obvious, I tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/78 "2008-06-01T22:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] (shakes head) Joe, Joe, Joe… Don’t you realize that all of humanity’s problems are being engineered by those same lizard-like space aliens? It’s their way of keeping us down. So, Obama and Hitler are the _same_ lizard-like space alien. It’s obvious, I tell ya. [/QUOTE] So an alien lizard man is sucking pigment out of Michael Jackson? Now you’re just being silly - a lizard wouldn’t be able to metabolize human pigment. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/79 "2008-06-01T23:03:05Z")
You think Michael Jackson is _human_? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148/80 "2008-06-01T23:03:28Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] So an alien lizard man is sucking pigment out of Michael Jackson? Now you’re just being silly - a lizard wouldn’t be able to metabolize human pigment. -Joe [/QUOTE] Not in THIS reality, but remember realities are like radio frequencies, there are tons of them you just have to tune into the right one. The [del]Lizardfolk[/del] Reptoids like Obama-Hitler specifically go to Reality [12658.197\*sqrt(-1)]/0 where they can successfully metabolize and use ANYTHING. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arbeit-macht-frei-obama-and-auschwitzgate/451148.md?page=5)