Obama's Ancestors

From the New York Times, news that Barack Obama white ancestors once owned slaves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/us/politics/03obama.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

Bill Burton, spokesman for Senator Obama's, responds: “It is a true measure of progress that the descendant of a slave owner would come to marry a student from Kenya and produce a son who would grow up to be a candidate for president of the United States."