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Just for fun, thought I’d spend some time picking this bizarre article apart:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html

“Others taunt him as a “skinny kid with a funny name,”

Question: why did the kids think his name was funny? Isn’t his name BHO Jr.?

“Others taunt him as a “skinny kid with a funny name,” whose Kenyan father herded goats and lived in a remote village in Siaya, Nyanza province.

With his cousin Yusuf Okoth Obama, when he visited his father’s home in Alego, Siaya, 10 years ago. e”

Question: What happened to this paragraph? Why does it end with a dangling “e” and appear to be missing an entire sentence?

“Meanwhile, back at the ranch, as it were, in the sleepy village of Alego-Kogello where Barack Obama Snr grew up, they call the prospective Senator “Wuod Sarah”, Dholuo for “the son of Sarah”, Sarah being his foster grandmother.

Obama’s real grand mother - the late Habiba Akumu separated with his grandfather, thus forcing Sarah to step in to care for him.”

Question: The prospective senator is called the son of Sarah because she had to step in and care for him. When? He never lived in Kenya. Or did he?

“A Sunday Nation team that set out to trace Obama’s roots was surprised to find that, unknown to many, Obama has actually been to this village twice. First in 1983, when he had come to mourn his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, who had died in Nairobi in 1982; and again in 1995 when he brought home his young bride to show her his roots.

During both visits, the villagers paid little or no attention to him. He managed to slip quietly into the village, pray at his father’s graveyard and meet a few relatives and villagers.”

Question: for someone who has only been there twice, they seem awfully excited! Was he so unknown that he slipped in and out quietly, no one paying attention to him?

“Mama Sarah told us: “He is very enthusiastic about his relatives here. He keeps on sending people to find out how we are faring.”

Question: How enthusiastic has he been since he grabbed the golden ring?

Barack has deep roots here. He once told me he has two homes - Kenya and the United States, she says happily.”

Question: Can you say divided loyalty, boys and girls?

“Ever since the news of Obama’s Kenya connection was known, Mama Sarah has been receiving a stream of visitors. They now average about five a day.

Most of these visitors are journalists, both foreign and local (like ourselves), who have turned the home upside down while tracing Obama’s roots.”

Question: Where’s all the info. those five-a-day journalists have been digging up? Were they journalists, or from “The Chicago Way, Inc.”?

“Tracing Obama’s home was a simple task. The home, located some 60 km from Kisumu town, is well known in Alego. Almost every villager you meet is ready to offer a tip on how to access the home.

To reach the home, one turns off the Kisumu-Siaya road near Ng’iya shopping centre and drives towards Obama’s village market, Nyang’oma-Kogello. From there the home is just a stone’s throw-away.

By local standards it is a vast well kept compound with Sarah’s battered brick house sitting imposingly at the far end.

Two cemented graves, one for Barack Obama Snr and the other for his father Mzee Hussein Onyango Obama, who was born in 1870 but died in 1975.”

Question: why does Obama have a compound in Kenya where his grandmother lives on the back of the property?

“The Obama family are among the few Muslims in the locality.”

Question: who would have ever guessed that?

“According to Mama Sarah, Obama Jr used his two trips to Kenya to try to unravel his roots. He spoke to many villagers and relatives through an interpreter.”

Question: how long does it take to get your story straight?

“According to the family, Obama’s father travelled to America to study at the University of Hawaii in 1959. While there, he worked for an oil company and married his second wife, a white woman, named Anna Toot, and their union produced Barack Obama Jr.”

Question: Who in the world is Anna Toot?????