US politics; Democratic Convention; Maya Soetoro-Ng

Larry Tribe is touting Barack Obama’s “brilliance”. And here come the sweet pictures of the girls. And now this is interesting: a testimonial from Obama’s half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, whose father is Indonesian, and who is married to a Chinese-Canadian and lives in Hawaii where she teaches US history. Unlike some of the Obama relatives in the news lately, he and Maya grew up together for a time.