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'''Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.''' (b. Honolulu, August 4, 1961) is the current front runner of the 2008 Democrat presidential primary.  Obama is a freshman [[Democratic]] Senator from Illinois, first elected to statewide office in 2004.  [[Image:Democrat Obama during the Pledge.jpg|325px|thumb|right|Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama on the campaign trail with [[Bill Richardson]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] during the [[National Anthem]].]]

'''Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.''' (b. Honolulu, August 4, 1961) is the current front runner of the 2008 Democrat presidential primary.  Obama is a freshman [[Democratic]] Senator from Illinois, first elected to statewide office in 2004.  [[Image:Democrat Obama during the Pledge.jpg|325px|thumb|right|Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama on the campaign trail with [[Bill Richardson]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] during the [[National Anthem]].]]

Obama falsely claimed that he was a constitutional law professor when in actuality he only held the title of "Senior Lecturer."  <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/30/politics/p132303D74.DTL&type=politics</ref><ref>http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4238307</ref>  Obama falsely claimed that he "had an uncle who was one of the — who was part of the first American troops to go into [[Auschwitz]] and liberate the concentration camps. And the story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months."<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,359061,00.html</ref>  In fact, Obama does not have an uncle, and no American soldier liberated Auschwitz.<ref>Obama had a more distant relative (a great uncle) who may have helped liberate Buchenwald, but given that Obama misstated who his relative was and what he did, it cast doubt on Obama's claim that the relative lived in the attic for six months.</ref>

Obama falsely claimed that he was a constitutional law professor when in actuality he only held the title of "Senior Lecturer."  <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/30/politics/p132303D74.DTL&type=politics</ref><ref>http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4238307</ref>  Obama falsely claimed that he "had an uncle who was one of the — who was part of the first American troops to go into [[Auschwitz]] and liberate the concentration camps. And the story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months."<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,359061,00.html</ref>  In fact, the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz. The Obama campaign later stated that the candidate misspoke, and should have said that Obama's great-uncle helped liberate a subcamp of Buchenwald. <ref>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/27/obamas_uncle_and_the_liberatio.html#more

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton stated that Obama's great-uncle "served in the 89th Infantry Division that Liberated Ohrdruf, a Subcamp of Buchenwald, the First Camp Liberated by Americans, on April 4, 1945." Some commentators feel that since Obama misstated the genealogical relationship to his great-uncle and which concentration camp his great uncle liberated, the candidate cast doubt on the claim that Obama's great-uncle did not leave his house for six months upon returning from the war.</ref>

Obama states that he consistently opposed the [[Iraq War]] since 2002, a claim and position that former President [[Bill Clinton]] criticized as "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1131516320080111</ref>

Obama states that he consistently opposed the [[Iraq War]] since 2002, a claim and position that former President [[Bill Clinton]] criticized as "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1131516320080111</ref>