I watched his show tonight. I noticed him go down from 250k to 200k but assumed he was rounding. Still his proposals and promises need to get through congress most of whom have side businesses and investments well over that magic $250k. Perhaps Barrack and his team did the math and figured that we need way more then 2-5% of the wealthiest people to help out in the economic disaster.
If you care about Obama's position on abortion read all of this then complain:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Barac ... ortion.htm
I don't care if he taxes a 401k because I don't have a 401k, do you? If we had one it likely would not be worth anything now anyways. The coffee can is looking really secure as far as deposits go, so is the mattress! Besides, people already pay taxes on 401k withdraws.
As for the comment about Obama's grandmother, I don't know, it sounds like an obvious smear to me. I mean what's a pregnant 18 y/o white girl from Kansas doing in Kenya in 1961 anyways? Peace corps? Let's assume she was there, being born outside of the US to an American mother would have granted Obama dual citizenship. So still a citizen of the US but also of Kenya.
Oh and those "close" relatives you mentioned live in Africa and Indonesia. Obama really did not come into any sort of wealth until he began to campaign for president and people started buying his books almost 2 years ago. I think he has been busy trying to become the next president but I am not on his staff so I don't know.