Thursday, November 13, 2008

Conundrum of the Day... (cotd)

This image was cropped out of the Haaretz website... these news items ran one after the other....

So, is he Jewish or is he Bedouin Arab?

And I find it amazing that everyone is very excited to claim him as one of theirs... if we give him some time in office, I hope people will still want to claim him as one of theirs... rather than wishing he was one of someone else's....

8 comments:

Risa said...
November 13, 2008 3:30 PM  

Maybe everyone's right ... he said he was a mutt...

Rafi G said...
November 13, 2008 3:30 PM  

lol

BlackBeltStep said...
November 13, 2008 3:56 PM  

JPost also reported this story. Check it out

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404721525&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

it's absolutely hilarious! Essentially, some Beduin's 95 year old mother thought that Obama grooved to the beat like their family, so that, plus the fact that former pres. bush (the father) looks like current pres. bush (the son), is clear proof that this Beduin family is related to Obama! I am not kidding, that's the story!

BlackBeltStep said...
November 13, 2008 3:58 PM  

the link got cut off - add the letter "l" to make "Full" at the end of the link

Shaul Behr said...
November 13, 2008 4:28 PM  

The midrash says that every nation claimed Ester as one of theirs...

Anonymous said...
November 13, 2008 4:55 PM  

since he can't claim the title of first black president (clinton already took that) so people are trying to see what works for obamah.

Special Ed said...
November 13, 2008 6:14 PM  

Kind of like mordechai

Anonymous said...
November 16, 2008 4:24 PM  

He is Irish as well!!!

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