Outrage in Poland over Obama’s ‘Polish Death Camp’ comment

It’s so nice to have a president who’s smart, don’t you think? I mean, Obama can pronounce “nuclear” correctly, although the word kind of sticks in his throat when mentioning it in the same breath as Iran or North Korea.

But there’s “smart” like Obama, and then there’s “smart” like, well, the rest of us. Obama’s gaffetastic appearances lately makes one wonder if we should redefine the idea of intellectual acuity and place the president in a separate category.

ABC:
Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama’s reference earlier to “a Polish death camp” – as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.

“The White House will apologize for this outrageous error,” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted. Sikorski said that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk “will make a statement in the morning. It’s a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence.”

The president had been trying to honor a famous Pole, awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter who sneaked behind enemy lines to bear witness to the atrocities being committed against Jews. President Obama referred to him being smuggled “into the Warsaw ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself.”

Read More at americanthinker.com.  By Rick Moran.