The headline story on my Yahoo News reads, "Obama channels Hendrix on critics: ‘They talk about me like a dog.'""Though Obama didn't acknowledge it," reads the article by Holly Bailey,  "the line was a verbatim quote from "Stone Free," the first song Hendrix wrote after moving to England in 1966."Holly dear, if Obama has not acknowledged help with his 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father, he is not about to acknowledge the source of this oddly inappropriate whine.Still, this reference may be more than whimsical.  For those who insist on a celebrity father for Obama, Hendrix makes a much better candidate than Malcolm X.  Two days older than Obama's mom, Ann Dunham, Hendrix was not at all abashed about dating white women at his high school, also in Seattle where Ann Lived.  Indeed, Hendrix was allegedly thrown out of high school for holding a white girl's hand.  Ann might well have fallen for the tall, thin...(Read Full Post)