As it turns out, OBAMA has fabulous European ancestry through his mother (though not, as it happens, through her STRAUB line), as a perusal of REITWIESNER's web page (linked above) will attest.  OBAMA has "hooked into" the European nobility; and, as the usual result of which, he has many royals in his pedigree, such as:  Henry II, Edward I, William I (the Conqueror), etc., up to and including Charlemagne, to name just a few.  I share much of this ancestry with him, but on different lines, just as do tens of millions of Europeans and European-Americans, including many notables.  For example, Barack is cousin to Pres. James MADISON, Pres. Jimmy CARTER, Pres. Harry TRUMAN, Winston CHURCHILL, Col. Robert E. LEE, Ernest HEMMINGWAY, et al.

How appropriate that an American of mixed African and nobel European ancestry would become the leader of the free world in the 21st-Century, a time when the need to bridge the gap between the races and the nations has never been greater.  And how apt that he was a teacher of Constitutional law (ten years at the University of Chicago), at a time when we most need to return our nation to the rule of that sacred document.  And how deliciously ironic that our nation will have been saved by a black man.