The comments by 'Jay Blanc' have to constitute one of the most stupendously ignorant posts I have ever read. First, one wonders on what basis does he assert that the story is '... phoney ...'? We no more know that it is phony than we know it is correct. Second, how does the story relate only to '... the [b]lack candidate ...'; I thought the story was that both Cheney and Obama were related. Third, how, by any bizarre stretch of anyone's imagination, does anything about this story constitute '... unthinking racism ...'? Jay Blanc should grow up.

Why is the distant heritage of Obama something we 'should know today'? Why is this even news? Why is it that it's the Black candidate who gets these phoney news stories about his heritage?

Not to accuse you of raci... Actually, yes, let's accuse you of the exact kind of unthinking racism of letting this kind of phoney race baiting news story through. You should be ashamed.