[Old Sarge]

Snopes-lovers will appear and “debunk” this in 5... 4... 3... 2...

[Blogger]

Not debunk. Clarify, and not through Snopes.

Different title. Different author, though associated with Hugh Downs:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_odd_choices_in_barack_obam.html

[pgkdan]

I think he’s a flake too but I doubt that Hugh Downs wrote this. I’m just too lazy to go to Snopes and try to prove it. Bdesides, I don’t accept Snopes as the be all and end all when it comes to fact checking.