Not exactly an original thought in Iraq.

Via WaPo:

In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, former Iraqi member of parliament Taha al-Lahibi is shown giving an unusual explanation for why he thinks President Obama is being “more cooperative with Shiite Iranians.”

Obama is willing to work with Iran because of the “Shiite background” of his parents, Lahibi reasoned during an interview on an Arabic-language satellite channel. The former lawmaker pointed to the U.S. president’s middle name as proof, with Hussein also being the name of Shiite Islam’s holiest martyr. […]

Lahibi isn’t the only one who has recently peddled the theory that Obama has Shiite lineage, however. “There is one thing we must not forget. I am not peddling some theory, and I am not being racist, but Barack Hussein Obama is the son of a Shiite Kenyan father,” Syrian writer Muhydin Lazikani said during a recent interview with the London-based al-Hiwar television channel.

“All the childhood memories of the man who rules the White House are Shiite memories,” Lazikani added. “This is why the Iranian issue is so important to him, and why he is so anxious for Iran to emerge victorious, and for Syria and all the countries of the Arab Gulf to be shattered.”