Meet Your Cousin, the First Lady: DNA gives new insights into Michelle Obama's roots

The New York Times ^ | 17 Jun 2012 | Rachel L Swarns

[Cronos]

i suspect there's really no more black or white issue. The GOP way in which we are color blind is the future, not the democrat way...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

If an issue can be exploited the Marxists will exploit it.

[mountainlion]

I heard that the Russians have Obama’s DNA and know who his father really is. Could be interesting.

[No One Special]

Probabaly looking to clone him. ;-)

[mountainlion]

Can you clone a second time?

[libstripper]

It’s his DNA the interests me, not Moochelle’s. Odd, how the Slimes concentrates on hers, not his.

[ronnie raygun]

“Dreams of my wifes slave family anscestry” another fiction book, this one to relate to the struggles Michelles family went through recovering from slavery and how they overcame racism first hand.

[bgill]

Oh, so it’s not just vactions and lobster but reparations that we’ve been paying to Moochelle.

[Ditter]

The article says “most had no idea their ancestors owned slaves”. When I researched my early Texas ancestors in the First Census of Texas. all of the possessions listed were “2 slaves and a wooden clock”. I also found grave stones in the woods like the ones showed in the article. Genealogy research is fun, if you haven't tried it you should.

[9YearLurker]

So Mrs. Obama is more white than Mrs. Warren is Native American.

[Vinnie]

Sooo, Michelle has white blood in her.

Guess Zer0 now has to one up her.
‘Obama is related to Alexander the Great’ /s

[Hawthorn]

>> the Slimes concentrates on hers, not his <<

One step at a time. If enough people get interested in hers, the MSM may eventually get interested in his.

[sheana]

I also have researched my family, no slaves.....ever. So why am I still paying reparations?

[WellyP]

I really tried to be interested in this....I’M NOT! WTFC

[Regulator]

where striving white men planted corn and cotton, fought for the Confederacy and owned slaves

Only a few of them. Everyone else was dirt poor and mainly subsistence farmers.

And how do I know that?

Because my ancestors settled North Georgia, and yes, some of them were named Shields. They came from North Carolina, as a quick glance at the map will show you why.

And they are still there, and yeah, a lot of them fought for the Confederacy. But most of those men did that because that was what their State voted for - in my case, my GG-Uncle was against secession but voted for it in the NC State legislature when he reluctantly concluded that this was the will of the people.

Glad to know Michelle is a distant relative. Always nice to have friends in high places...maybe I can hit her up for an interest free "loan" on a soon-to-fail solar cell company.

[oh8eleven]

Genealogy research is fun, if you haven't tried it you should.
I agree 100%. I had no idea who or how we got here from Ireland and discovered my ggGF landed in NYC in 1851.
After that I discovered why my family history was a secret - lots of alcohol problems, plus, discovered my great grandparents didn't marry until after two kids.
Oh, those Irishmen ...

[DrDude]

Like the movie “Multiplicity”. BHO has been watered down so many times his IQ is near Zero. Thus the nickname.

[X-spurt]

Frank Marshall, it was all just too convienent. nobama1 was just a beard.

The ruskis have nothing of value to hold over our head.

No other possible reason for State of Hawaii to hold the original BC so closely. If the babydaddy was the kenyan, it would automatically throw NBC out, but if it was Marshall, nobama meets NBC, as it does not specify “legitimate birth”.

Who knows why they wanted to hide Marshalldaddy. The whole damn liberal family was in on this.

[Sirius Lee]

Hot black chick DNA:

Moochelle's DNA:

It's easy to tell one from the other.