When David Frum at the liberal Daily Beast are giving Obama a hard time about "Polish Death Camps," you have to think Obama's standing as the "World's Smartest Guy" has been downgraded.

David Frum opines:

You may say the Poles are over-sensitive. One might as well say that Americans are under-sensitive. The U.S. has had such a comparatively happy history that it's hard to think of a domestic analogy that would capture what Poles feel when the worst crimes of their worst oppressors are attributed—not to the authors—but to them. "The Hawaiian sneak attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor" is a pathetically inadequate approximation, but at least it gets the grammar of the insult. "The Belgian massacre of U.S. prisoners at Malmedy"? No, still not it. Aside from being morally inadequate, such analogies also miss the moral intensity of World War II for Poles. Their war did not end until 1989: they continue to live more intimately with the war's legacy even now, more than almost any other European nation. The medal to Karski was to be part of the process of laying painful memories to rest. It was intended too to strengthen the US-Polish relations that the Obama administration has frayed in pursuit of its "reset" with Russia. Instead, this administration bungled everything: past, present, and future.

Let me hazard a guess: the Left is seeing its historic moent slipping away and want to make sure that they are on record as assigning the blame to someone else.

Me personally, I think that this is just a minor slip up on Obama's part in the long series of incidents that has made me wonder why he doesn't have a protocol secretary.

My favorite is still when he cued the band to play "God save the Queen" in the middle of his toast to the Queen - comedy gold.

On the other hand, given his apparent narrowness of interest, I can't say for certain that prior to yesterday, Obama knew (a) there were death camps in Poland or (b) that they weren't run by the Poles.