Proud of Being Ignorant  I missed Mike Huckabee's rather silly
speculation which Andrew takes on here:  "One thing that I do
know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for
example, very different than the average American ... his
perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and
grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is
very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing
that the British are a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his
grandfather."  Huckabee has rather unconvincingly retracted the
implicit claim of birtherism. Still, Adam notes that this dime-
store analysis doesn't even jibe with Kenyan history:  If you
actually read Obama's book, he states that his father fell into
depression and drinking because he was passed over for
promotions and recognition while working in the government of
Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, a downward spiral from which he
never recovered until his death from a car crash. If you were
going to trying to deploy some di