Obama Related To George Washington?

CBS 6-WTVR, Richmond, VA ^ | 2/05/07 | AP via CBS 6- WTVR, Richmond, VA

[melt]

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) - A Big Island genealogist has discovered presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama has some ancestral ties to the White House and colonial Virginia. Bruce Harrison, founder of the Waikoloa-based Family Forest Project, says he found links between the Democratic senator from Illinois and Presidents George Washington, James Madison, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter.

[nctexan]

And that's on his father's side...

[nctexan]

"...found links between the Democratic senator from Illinois and Presidents George Washington, James Madison, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter."

Does this mean reparations or not? I'm confused.

[lewislynn]

Obama Related To George Washington?

Well he looks like a d#%k head but based on everything I've heard about him he's the second coming himself.

[melt]

LOL! Straight out of central casting for "Men In Black"...

[PISANO]

Nah..........the MSM isn't trying to BUILD this guy up for his Presidential run ..........no way!

[supremedoctrine]

"look at those ears"
YES! And George Washington had big ears!
America is in the grip of Obamamania!
I believe everything!
(Seriously, I couldn't continue on and read past the original claims of his lineage.....it is just TOO pathetic.) Maybe they're secretly trying to trap him into going along with it, a la Hillary's claiming to be named after Sir Edmund, who was a virtual unknown when HRC was born. It looks like yet another Hillary plot.

[melt]

There is definitely a family resemblance in the smile...

[taxesareforever]

I think if they do an indepth search they will find that he is related to Robert E.Lee. :)

[F.J. Mitchell]

Considering his name, Obama would more likely be a direct descendant of Mohammad, or the reincarnated return of the guy who has been down the well all these years,

[citizencon]

He is also related to Streisand, Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen on his father's side...

[RWR8189]

The last common ancestor of all Western Europeans (of which Obama is half) was about AD 1000, so something like this is not a big surprise and just about everyone has lots of famous people in their family tree.

[cookcounty]

" just about everyone has lots of famous people in their family tree." Not so. People forget how insular village life was in the past. I traced my mom's geneology back 350 years and every one of them was from the little town of Gumlakarlaby, Finland, where nothing ever happened 'ceptin' for the blizzards and the mysterious fish die-off of 1727. And no one ever even heard of anybody that was famous.

[cookcounty]

"He is also related to Streisand, Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen on his father's side..."

LOL! Now would that be through the line of Isaac or Ishmael?

[California Patriot]

Who cares?

[maggief]

Who cares? The guy in the article who is trying to peddle more geneology cd-roms.

[snodog]

Really, related to Madison, me too. That means he is related to Zachory Taylor, and Jefferson Davis. Yeah that Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Interesting?

[coconutt2000]

... Obama is probably more recently related to more Islamic terrorists, than he is to our past Presidents.

[Just Lori]

Yeah, well I'm related to Mary, Queen of Scotts, but that doesn't make me royalty!

[pandoraou812]

I totally agree. That does it for me.

[w1andsodidwe]

Not so.

Well, I disagree. I personally have a common ancestor with W and most amazing of all have traced my ancestry back to Old King Cole. My guess is that most people can do a similar thing.