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Little Obamas and Michelles were coming to the world in maternities all over Kenya — one woman managing both at the same time with a pair of twins — as the party mood continued Wednesday in the nation where the US president-elect’s father was born.

In the New Nyanza provincial general hospital in Kisumu, the capital of the region which is home to Barack Obama’s ancestral village, Pauline Adhiambo gave birth to twins she named Obama and Michelle, an AFP correspondent reported. Read the rest of this entry »

A man who resembles Barack Obama to an astonishing degree is causing double-takes he walks the grounds of the Democratic National Convention.

Gerardo Buisseaux, a Cuban-American credentialed as a reporter for a Miami television station, is a dead-ringer for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — This presidential race was no contest: John McCain sped to the finish while Barack Obama was reluctant to leave the starting point.

But there’s no guarantee giant Madagascar hissing cockroaches will predict the real result in November.

The roach race Thursday was part of the New Jersey Pest Management Association’s annual clinic and trade show.

Organizers liken the race’s prediction success to that of Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day.

Association Executive Director Leonard Douglen says the 2000 roach race came close. The Gore roach won by an antenna, hanging chads not included.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Holy politicking, Batman.

U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama have unmasked their favorite pop culture icons, including superheroes, with McCain favoring Batman and Obama choosing Spider-Man and Batman.

In interviews with Entertainment Weekly magazine posted on its Web site on Thursday, McCain, 71, and Obama, 47, also gave their picks for best on-screen president, top singers and most-liked television shows.

Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois, said he chose Spider-Man and Batman because “they have some inner turmoil.” McCain, a Republican senator from Arizona, said Batman is a quiet hero who pursues justice “against insurmountable odds.”

Huh? Hillary Clinton is actually working to undermine Barack Obama? But how can that be? We thought the Democrats were all one united family now happily singing Kumbaya together. Yes, the DUmmies are finally waking up to harsh political reality as you can see in this THREAD titled “ABC – Hillary still telling friends in private that she doubts that Obama can win.” And now they are mad that Hillary has cast aspersions upon the electibility of their Obamassiah. So let us join the DUmmies screeching in outrage at Hillary in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, thinking he needs double the beer and pizza ration for watching the Democrat convention, is in the [barackets] Read the rest of this entry »