Taranto: AP Discovers 'Divorce...Early in Marriage'?

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Taranto: AP Discovers 'Divorce...Early in Marriage'? By Tim Graham (Bio \| Archive) August 18, 2006 - 21:47 ET In his Best of the Web column Friday, Opinion Journal's James Taranto had fun with AP writer Dennis Conrad as he committed yet another cuddly piece on Sen. Barack Obama, a favorite media teddy bear: In his 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama recalled his first trip to Africa, when, in his late 20s, he cried as he sat between the graves of his father and grandfather. Obama hardly knew his father. His parents divorced early in their marriage. Taranto dead-panned: "That's very unusual. Although many couples get divorced nowadays, the vast majority do not do so until late in the marriage." 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