The campaign boasts some former military brass, including Richard Danzig, a former secretary of the navy and possible defence secretary.
If it takes a lot longer, tenants may have grounds to walk away from their leases, says real estate lawyer Douglas Danzig.
He said the Irish diplomat stood up to the Nazis in Danzig and was a "hate figure to the Third Reich but he is now remembered in his home place".
At the time of the attack by the Schleswig-Holstein - which was moored in the Polish harbour on a friendship visit - Gdansk was known as the free city of Danzig.
Yet today the new ties that bind nations are based not on coercion--a lashing together of explosive ethnic mixes like Danzig and Yugoslavia--but on enlightened and mutual self-interest, promising greater stability and prosperity.
In 1936, Nazis in Danzig refused to co-operate with him and in 1940 he took over as secretary general of the League of Nations and stayed in Geneva until the end of the war.
After he left journalism he moved into the Department of External Affairs in Dublin and in 1934 was appointed to the League of Nations in Danzig, then a free city, now the Polish city of Gdansk.
Strategically, Mr Danzig suggested that Mr Obama would - like Harry Truman - change the foreign policy climate by aiming for a more multilateral approach, and by asking local actors to take on more of the military burden in ongoing conflicts.
Few survive to tell the tale of the German battleship, Schleswig-Holstein, unleashing a barrage of 280mm and 170mm shells at a Polish fort and shattering the dawn breaking over the Westerplatte peninsula in the free city of Danzig on 1 September 1939.
The panel - organised by The Truman National Security Project - featured a couple of former defence officials from the Clinton administration (former Defence Secretary William Perry and former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig), both of whom have been acting as advisers to the Obama campaign.
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