Barack Obama : African relatives Think His Father Was Murdered "OMG"

Perhaps the president can add this one to his list of myths to bust in December when he appears on the Discovery Channel show  "MythBusters" : His Father was not killed in a car accident  in 1982 , as was reported , but was murdered.

So goes a family theory investigated by Peter Firstbrook in his history of  President  Barack Obama's  African side of the family, "The Obamas," and dissected by Obama biographer  David Remnick in a  post today on the New Yorker's website.

Barack Obama Sr. was "a thwarted politican and bureaucrat," outspoken in his criticism of the Kenyan government's acceptance of corruption among it's ranks, according to Remnick.

He was also a heavy drinker , nicknamed  "Mr Double-Double" after his usual Scotch orders. On the night  of his death he was found inside his car, which had hit a tree.

Fristbrook talked to Charles Oluoch , a cousin of the president , who related the family's suspicious . Obama Sr. had been in a number of accidents  before and had survived them all . His body  appeared to be fairly unharmed  -- no broken bones  and only a small amount of blood, Oluoch said.

"Although  it looked like an accident , our family suspected that there must have been foul play . I am not a medical doctor , but the way we saw  Barack laying there , he didn't look like someone who was involved in an accident," Oluoch said.

Sarah Obama , the president's step-grandmother , told the author a similar story :

"We think there was foul play there, and that is how he died , and they covered it up [by saying] that he  had an accident ," she said. "But we just had to leave it like that because the government  then was ruthless."

Remnick talked to Caroline Elkins, a historian at Harvard , who said she doesn't buy it .  Obama Sr. was a "serious, fall-down alcoholic" and his family is probably trying to restore  his reputation now that they have one of their own in the White House, she said.

But as Firstbrook points out 25 years later , we will probably never know the truth....

My take : I totally agree with Caroline Elkins ...why wait this long, I'm sure  the President  looked into his African background...maybe, just maybe they are looking for their 15 minutes of fame...

But hey that's just me  and keeping it real.