On Jan 17, 7:43*am, Jack Linthicum
wrote:
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But the one thing that differentiates Barack Obama from all other
black politicians is that he has no evident slave ancestors. Besides
Harry Reed's observation that he doesn't have a "Negro" speech pattern
he doesn't have any old plantation owner's grandchildren to pose with.

He seems more typical of the intelligent and ambitious blacks born
outside the US I've been priviledged to work with, the ones the locals
call "Jewmaicans".