8,000 Beduin stake their claim as the lost tribe of Barack Obama

[sabra]

Source: UK Sunday Times

A sheikh in Galilee says he has evidence that he and his family are linked by blood to the new President

He has a host of relatives in exotic locations from Hawaii to Kenya, and during his run for the American presidency he discovered that he had an aunt living in Boston.

Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in northern Israel.

Although the spokesman for the lost tribe of Obama has yet to reveal the documentary evidence that he says he possesses to support his claim, people are flocking from across the region to pay their respects to the “Bedu Obama”, whose social standing has gone through the roof.

“We knew about it years ago but we were afraid to talk about it because we didn’t want to influence the election,” Abdul Rahman Sheikh Abdullah, a 53-year-old local council member, told The Times in the small Beduin village of Bir al-Maksour in the Israeli region of Galilee. “We wrote a letter to him explaining the family connection.”

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It was his 95-year-old mother who first spotted the connection, he says. Seeing the charismatic senator on television, she noted a striking resemblance to one of the African migrant workers who used to be employed by rich sheikhs in the fertile north of British Mandate Palestine in the 1930s.

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[babylonsister]

1. sabra, I can't stop laughing!

Now whole tribes want to claim him?! This is quite the tribute.

[skooooo]

2. Obama's related to me too!

[glowing]

3. Me too, and I want first dibs on the Licoln Bedroom when he invites all his "family" over

for their first bar-b-cue at the White House.. LOL.. everyone now wants to be related to a Hussein.. LOL.

[Maine-i-acs]

4. The Wingers wil go berserk.

"We knew all along he was Muslin!1!!"

[Politicalboi]

5. Hell even Cheney is

Related to him. I wonder if Cheney will want to stay at the WH in his undisclosed location. The new cousin IT without the hair.

[123infinity]

6. And I thought winning the lottery brought 'em out of the woodwork!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. President O-Benetton.