It's genuine. Brit Hume doesn't comment on rumors and I also heard him. That has to really sting a freshman senator.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Obama is a lightweight. He was a second-rate backbencher who won a crapshoot primary and was faced with nonexistant Republican opposition.
He's slimy and two-faced and the only thing that will save him is that he looks smooth on TV.