Commentary of the Day: Chickenhawk Edition

Steve Gilbert, the chickenhawk and blogger-without-a-Wikipedia-entry who posts at Sweetness & Light who gleefully believes that the Obama-Uncle-Auschwitz misstatement is an important story, emailed Raymond and Mark Kitchell who are the proprietors of the War World II 89th Infantry Division’s official website:

From: Steve Gilbert
To: markkitchell@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:14 AM
Subject: Any Record Of Charles W Payne?

Mr. Kitchell,

As you may have heard by now, Barack Obama has claimed that his great uncle Charlie Payne was a member of the 89th Div that liberated Buchenwald.

According to records his full name is either Charles W Payne or Charles T Payne (most likely the former), and he was born in 1924 - and he is still alive today.

He most likely was from Kansas at the time of enlistment.

Do you have any record of this gentleman?

Thank you,

Steve Gilbert
sweetness-light.com

PS - If you go to my website, you will see that I was probably the first to note the error in Mr. Obama’s first claims about his “uncle.”

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