Equal time for mom

Much to my surprise (not), there are some yaboos still obsessing over the "leaked" photo of Barack Obama wearing traditional Kenya garb from a trip to Africa a few weeks ago. One of the favorite tactics of the yaboos is to claim that the photo shows Senator Obama wearing his father's "tribal outfit," I presume because of some bizarre attempt to imply that Obama isn't really an American and/or to associate him to the negative aspects of Kenya.

To those folks I have to ask -- if you're going to go around trumpeting Obama dressing up from his father's side of the family, why not give equal time to his mother? Why aren't you waving around photos of Obama dressed up in his mother's culture?

Here, I'll help you out. Ladies and gentlemen, a photo of Senator Barack Obama wearing his mother's cultural costume:

For those not in the know, Barack Obama's mother was Ann Dunham, daughter of Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyne Payne, born and raised in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and as all-American whitebread as a loaf of Wonder's.

If we're going to keep waving around that photo of Barack Obama in a Kenyan elder's outfit as if it was anything important (which it isn't), then we should also given equal time and weight to a photo of Barack Obama wearing an American elder's outfit -- hey, it's only fair.

(Bonus: A photo of Barack Obama and his mother. Don't expect to see this get a lot of air time in the mainstream media, either...)

Hat tip to Mike Malloy for inspiring this post.