http://disqus.com/people/d05eeb5db61425c65dae5f7c5a5f9d12/enThu, 30 Oct 2008 23:16:03 -0000http://washingtonindependent.disqus.com/obama_infomercial_drew_33_million_viewers/#comment-3403080Sen. Jim Webb , D- Va. , told the audience in Roanoke , "They say, 'That person's not like you, that person doesn't understand you,'" but " Barack Obama is like you. He knows what it's like to struggle."<br>Webb said much has been made of "certain ethnic issues" but while Obama's father was born in Kenya , his mother was from " Kansas by way of Kentucky ." Webb said that meant if Obama were elected he would be the 14th president whose family ties go "back to the mountains of this area."<br><br>Barack’s American Ancestry includes ancestors from not only Hawaii and Kansas, but<br>also Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and across the Atlantic: Ireland, Wales, Netherlands, and much more.jimThu, 30 Oct 2008 23:16:03 -0000