The "he's an Arab" smear reached so widely that the New York Times devoted a front-page story to its origins.
Notice they fail to mention who is an "Arab"..
Why would having Arab heritage be a smear? Many American citizens, including native-born citizens, have Arab heritage.
What we here at Free Republic care about is: why does Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. lie about his past? Did he meet Bill Ayers in 1983 when they were both attending school in New York City? When Ayers and Obama, Jr. shared an office on the third floor at 115 S. Sangamon St., Chicago, IL 60607 from 1995-1998, how could Obama, Jr. claim to barely have met the Marxist, hard-core Communist, bomb-building Bill Ayers?
When Bill Ayers ghost-writes your autobiography, doesn’t he have to ask you, Obama, Jr. lots of detailed questions? And doesn’t that take hundreds of hours in the same room?