The Ties that Bind and Where Did Obama Get Those Ears?

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	The Ties that Bind and Where Did Obama Get Those Ears?

dulios

10-21-2008 4:44 PM

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obama, family, grandparents, race, biracial

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10-21-2008 7:08 PM

reimers

He does resemble his grandfather quite a bit.

10-22-2008 7:39 AM

prin1

great post!

10-22-2008 7:39 PM

aklimento

Beautiful folks. He is certainly not "Arian" type.

10-23-2008 3:45 PM

citizenbfk

The grandparents doing all this is quite an impressive story...some sort of 'old-fashioned,' story from our pioneering past.

Nice to see they made it real again.

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