Max Solbrekken World Mission: BARACK OBAMA IS IGNORANT & INCOMPETENT says Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski. BILL CLINTON called Barack Obama an AMATEUR. "It's a pity that such a dignified ceremony was overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence." Unfortunately, there is a dumbing-down of the so-called elite who spend too much time involved in the frivolous social media. Martin Luther was very concerned in his time that SCHOOLS should teach the Word of God. He warned that ignorance, stupidity and every evil work would gain the ascendancy if the Bible was set aside for human wisdom. Daniel Webster also warned about the dumbing- down of the American people if the Bible and Gospel literature did not take first place in the USA. They were both right! Barack Obama and many others have proven that. -Pastor Max Solbrekken

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

BARACK OBAMA IS IGNORANT & INCOMPETENT says Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski. BILL CLINTON called Barack Obama an AMATEUR. "It's a pity that such a dignified ceremony was overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence." Unfortunately, there is a dumbing-down of the so-called elite who spend too much time involved in the frivolous social media. Martin Luther was very concerned in his time that SCHOOLS should teach the Word of God. He warned that ignorance, stupidity and every evil work would gain the ascendancy if the Bible was set aside for human wisdom. Daniel Webster also warned about the dumbing- down of the American people if the Bible and Gospel literature did not take first place in the USA. They were both right! Barack Obama and many others have proven that. -Pastor Max Solbrekken

White House says Obama 'misspoke' after Poles demand apology over ‘Polish death camp’ remark

Published May 30, 2012

Associated Press

May 29, 2012: President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to former Polish Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld who is accepting for Jan Karski, a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP)

The White House said President Barack Obama misspoke on Tuesday when he referred to a "Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish war hero.

The president's remark had drawn immediate complaints from Poles who said Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski called it a matter of "ignorance and incompetence."

Obama made the comment while awarding the Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. Karski died in 2000.

During an East Room ceremony honoring 13 Medal of Freedom recipients, Obama said that Karski "served as a courier for the Polish resistance during the darkest days of World War II. Before one trip across enemy lines, resistance fighters told him that Jews were being murdered on a massive scale and smuggled him into the Warsaw Ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself. Jan took that information to President Franklin Roosevelt, giving one of the first accounts of the Holocaust and imploring to the world to take action."

Sikorski tweeted that the White House would apologize for "this outrageous error" and that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk would address the matter on Wednesday.

"It's a pity that such a dignified ceremony was overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence."

Alex Storozynski, president of the Kosciuszko Foundation, said Obama's comment "shocked the Poles present at the White House and those watching on C-SPAN. ... Karski would have cringed if he heard this."

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said: "The president misspoke. He was referring to Nazi death camps in Poland. We regret this misstatement, which should not detract from the clear intention to honor Mr. Karski and those brave citizens who stood on the side of human dignity in the face of tyranny."

Anxious to quell the controversy, the White House also noted that the president had visited the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial while in Poland and that he has repeatedly discussed the bravery of Poles during World War II.

The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected.

The Associated Press Stylebook states that when referring to "World War II camps in countries occupied by Nazi Germany, do not use phrases like Polish death camps that confuse the location and the perpetrators. Use instead, for example, death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland."