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The Latest Clinton Gambit

By The Daily Dish
Feb 25 2008, 9:33 AM ET

Obama in a funny-looking outfit. Yeah, he has an African heritage. Maybe we should just cut out the middle man and give Clinton Kristof's piece from this Saturday (video here):

Mr. Obama’s late grandfather is said to have been the first person in the area to wear Western clothes rather than just a loincloth. For a time he converted to Christianity and adopted the family name Johnson.

Later he converted to Islam, taking four wives. Senator Obama’s father, who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Catholic school, was also polygamous in keeping with local custom, taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Mr. Obama’s mother but remained a consort, according to accounts by local people and the senator himself.

What's Sid Blumenthal waiting for?



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