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Obama-me-crazy!

Posted by nikki reimer, April 13, 2008 12:12 AM | Permalink

US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is articulate, attractive, intelligent, and terribly charismatic. Yeah, and?

Well, here's a thing or two about Obama you may not have heard before:

1) Barack Obama's blackness and its effect on his campaign has already been widely discussed in the blogosphere as well as in traditional media. But Barack Obama is not only the United States' first African-American presidential candidate; he is the first biracial presidential candidate. Columnist Peggy Orenstein discusses multiracialism and the future of Hapa Nation in this thought-provoking New York Times Magazine piece, which touches on ethnicity in general, illustrated with a few relevant examples from the writer's own life. (At the airport, without her Japanese-American husband present, Orenstein strikes up a conversation with a stranger who inquires as to the height of Orenstein's daughter's "birth parents.")

2) The good folks at the New England Historic Genealogical Society decided to do a little research into the family trees of the three presidential candidates, and found links between Obama and Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman, James Madison, Winston Churchill, and General Robert E. Lee. Oh, and Brad Pitt. Since Hillary Clinton was found to be a distant cousin of Angelina Jolie, the US Democrats might want to skip all the politicking and just elect Shiloh.

3) A lot of people are becoming obsessed with the presidential candidate. Some of them made a video. Would Obama do your laundry? Is Obama your sandwich?

More: Obsessed with Obama video after the jump | Family tree Image: AP/Composite tmz.com

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