[NavVet]

I don't know about Hussein Obama, but his father could have secured the Dem nomination with that resume.

[TaraP]

IMHO Obama is just to young to be the President of the USA...If a Baby Boomer is going to be elected to being President let him come from good stock...Clinton was from a dysfunctional family and look how he conducted himself.
Obama might be a decent guy even though he's a *Demo* one stike against him and he's to young.

[Jeff Chandler]

All his whining about being oppressed because of his skin color is quite unbecoming, but it will definitely play into the liberal myth making machine.

[yhwhsman]

Mr Obama is already Democratic Senator for Illinois

So, they're trying to change their 'title' to make is sound like they're more American--it's the Democrat party.

[pipecorp]

why does his teeth always look blue?

[DakotaRed]

As the son of drunk and abusive parents, who didn't pass any of it along to my own children, I find articles dragging in ones parents or children to be irrelevant and disgusting.

I oppose Obama due to HIS views, not his parentage.

[Faraday]

Hillary can call in these kinds of articles from all over the world. Must keep her hands "clean", dontchya know. Mr. Obama, welcome to the big-time politics. Just remember, that in Arkansas politics, "where the bodies are buried," is not a metaphor.

[Boazo]

So your saying his dad was Ted Kennedy?

[Atlas Sneezed]

he was tortured by fellow pupils - who let out monkey hoots

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That's not racist, it's "earist."

They draw GWB as a "chimp" for similar characteristics, and it's obviously not racist.

[x]

Leave it to the British to actually do some investigative reporting on this.

I wouldn't count on this to sink Obama, though: it sounds like an ordinary public life in the age of Clinton.

Obama can even turn this to his favor, as Clinton turned his parents' mess into a political asset, if he's willing to really face the reality of his father's life, and not the romanticized image.

But growing up in public under the spotlight can be risky.

[ikka]

He grew up thinking of his father as a brilliant intellectual and pioneer of African independence only to learn that in Western terms he was basically a drunken lecher.

why did they have to throw in this dig at Bill Clinton ... oh, sorry, nevermind...

[EGPWS]

He has positioned himself as a devout Christian (having found God, he says, after years as an atheist)

Definitely DNC material.

Presidential material?

You decide.

Hitlery obviously has her crones at work preemptively.

Let them eat each other and just maybe we will be blessed with a true leader in '08.

[rockrr]

Oh oh! It looks like osama is getting the Swiftboat treatment*...



*Swiftboat: Factual but unflattering evidence about a person. Usually offered up in response to prevarications by politicos (also - see prevarication AKA John "Fn" Kerry)

[Rudder]

Barack Obama Snr started life with the advantage of being able to read and write...

I've never met anyone who could read and write at birth.

[Malesherbes]

A man (or woman, to be p.c.)wants to be President either to do something (Reagan) or to be somebody (Clinton.) Obama wants to be President not only to be somebody but to work out all his psychological issues - not a good motive.

[justiceseeker93]

Somehow, this story about his father doesn't mesh with the syrupy video introduction of Barack Obama at the Dem national convention in '04, which was seen on network TV.

It would be interesting if Obama and Tubba got into a confrontation about honesty and lack thereof during the Dem primary campaigns. That would be the proverbial "pot calling the kettle black" and vise versa.

The posted story also begs the question as to whether HRC and her operatives were behind it.

[Miss Didi]

My, my...the Pantsuit has been busy. She's a regular multi-tasker. Poor Ears won't know what hit him.

[ozzymandus]

Sounds like Osama Obama is a typical lying rich liberal, claiming to have lived a life of poverty and discrimination, when the truth is the exact opposite. He'll go far in RAT politics.

[Doctor Don]

I got lost in the recitation of the lineage of Osama Obama ........I think he must be an alien!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Mr. Obama need only set down with the Internet and search for Saul Alinsky+Hillary to learn of Mrs. Clinton's training in Yale's Marxist Madrases.

An acolyte of old (and 1960s new) leftist Saul Alinsky Mrs. Clinton so admired her mentor that she devoted her early years to him. Even dedicating dissertations to him -- all of which suddenly became Top Secret in the early 1990s but some like David Horowitz managed to Berger the sensitive papers, I guess; I don't know how Mr. Horowitz got the highly classified documents for his book, Shadow Government.

Yes the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s progressives' favorite and much admired radical who boasted "I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution on Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday" taught a young Hillary Rodham "the way it is" and how to "fan the flames of discontent."

Job well done, Mr. Alinsky, wherever you are.