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Obama Just Isn’t Into Poles

With the Obama administration, gaffes are not a bug but, rather feature, via Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin [1]:

US President Barack Obama’s description of a Nazi German Holocaust site as a “Polish death camp” shocked Poland, whose leaders insist the record be set straight 67 years after World War II.

Obama on Tuesday labeled the Nazi facility used to process Jews for extermination as a “Polish death camp.” The White House later said the president “misspoke” and expressed “regret”.

Niles Gardner, Telegraph (UK) via Fausta [2]:

President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf  [3]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 [4] by pulling out of the agreement over Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic.

It not a gaffe.   It is a pattern.