I think its ironic that Al Sharpton may have just played a major role in keeping Obama from being the first black President. His race pimping in calling out Strom Thurmond's relatives have made Obama's 'sin' seem worse.

All this 'sins of the great-great-grandfather, et al', seems to be carrying things a bit too far.

It seems to focus on trivialities of the distant past, too, when much closer day serious sins stare them right in the face. Look at that pic of Barak's father in the DailyMail. It appears he was a smoker! This is deeply disturbing to me. I don't know that I could vote for a man knowing that his father smoked, even if it was a pipe.

I loved the nose in the air sound of this line by the starched pants at the Daily Mail: "Barack Obama Snr started life with the advantage of being able to read and write, ..."

I much prefer the thought he might have started life in a hospital because he wanted to be near his mother. (ht: Howard, Fine, and Howard)

Could someone slap Al Sharpton upside the head and remind him that this "blame the guy for his great to the xth power grandparents acts" thing is what has kept the Middle East and the Balkans (and Ireland to a lesser extent) such a mess for several hundred years?