The people at Snopes are leftist apologists.
"He has called me to talk about the constitutional crisis in this country despite being in the middle of the very busy New Hampshire primary," Mr. Odinga said. Mr. Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, confirmed that the senator spoke to the Kenyan opposition leader on Monday afternoon for about five minutes before going into a rally in New Hampshire.
Odinga says Obama is his cousin
AP Scrubs Obama-Odinga Article [but] It Is Posted on My Barack Obama.com
Snopes research was basically calling the Obama Camp and asking them if it was true. Not exactly “hard” research.