Posted on 04/21/2015 7:20:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The road to the White House... which began 160 years ago in Ystradyfodwg: Ancestry expert traces Hillary's roots to impoverished mining family from tiny parish in the Welsh Valleys
As she kicks off her bid to enter the White House, Hillary Clinton could claim that her path to the presidency began some 160 years ago in the little-known Welsh parish of Ystradyfodwg – if she can pronounce it, that is.
For while the US Democrat has long spoken of her British ancestry, it appears most versions of the Rodham family tree have been drawn incorrectly due to a mix-up over her grandmother.
An expert in the US who was researching Mrs Clinton’s genealogy found that previous studies had used the wrong Hannah Jones – the name of Mrs Clinton’s paternal grandmother – as a basis for their family trees.
And Megan Smolenyak has now traced Mrs Clinton’s roots – correctly, she claims – to a mining family from a small community in south Wales.....
....Her mother Mary Griffiths - Hilary Clinton's great grand mother - had worked as a servant when she was 12 and endured crippling poverty growing up....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“How do you do it?” Marianne Pernold Young said.
It felt at first like a friendly throwaway. It wasn’t. It cut to the core for Clinton. Her eyes got teary. Her voice got shaky. Her answer, uncharacteristically emotional, made news, but the trigger was the question. It was the key question back then. It is the key question still now.
“I wanted to know her,” Young said Monday afternoon at her house, “as a woman.”
It was Jan. 7, 2008, the day before the primary. What happened at the Clinton campaign event at Café Espresso would be seen as a moment when Clinton’s candidacy grew briefly stronger because the candidate seemed momentarily more vulnerable. But it also was a revealing interaction between two working women, from the same generation, both of them complex mixtures of ambition and concession....
Young continued. “How do you, how do you … keep upbeat, and so wonderful?”.....
........Women have strengths beyond money and political consultants. Attacking a woman can be tricky, especially if she is sympathetic and popular.......
LGBTYstradyfodwg???
So now she’s Welsh?
:groan:
The Hillary! Clinton Story...
Millions of year ago in a small un-named village in
what would become known as africa...
Well, at least they’re not saying she was born in a manger in Bethlehem, the story they told about Barack Obama.
“....which began 160 years ago in crippling poverty”
Posh! I remember crippling poverty from 68 years ago, and my family told a history of it being worse during the Black Blizzards on the high plains, and before!
I’ll never forget how the Twin Towers almost fell on Chelsea! Hillary said so!
Chelsea said she watched the towers fall from her apartment building window!
I didn’t realize she was that old!
I figured 140, max!!!
Gosh, it’s a real American success story: a poor girl from the sticks finds that she can sleep, cheat, and murder her way to the occupation of someone else’s house for free. I’m gettin’ kinda misty here...
I was engaged to a Welsh girl, met her when she was vacationing here, what a little cutie, 19 years old and a “Miss Swansea”.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
I just assumed she was born a poor black child....
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