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Obama's Heritage Traced to Ireland
RTE NEWS ^
| 3/15/07
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Posted on 03/23/2007 4:41:49 PM PDT by Argus
US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama can now count himself as one of the millions of Americans with Irish heritage.
Research by the genealogy website ancestry.co.uk reveals that Mr Obama's great great great grandfather was born in Ireland, although it is not yet known where.
Falmouth Kearney sailed from Ireland to New York in 1850 at the age of 19 on the S.S. Marmion arriving on the 20th of March.
AdvertisementHe initially settled in Ohio, got married, had eight children, and later moved to Indiana, right next door to the state Obama currently represents in the US Senate.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irish; obama; third
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To: Argus
Sure, tis no surprise.
Everybody wants to be Irish!
Welcome aboard me,...eh,...boy?
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posted on
03/23/2007 5:14:35 PM PDT
by
incredulous joe
("If there were no God, there would be no atheists." - G.K. Chesterton)
To: Larry Lucido
22
posted on
03/23/2007 5:36:49 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi mom)
To: Argus
Begorrah, it's Barack O'Bama now.Barack Hussein O'bama!
Barack Hussein O'bama!
Barack Hussein O'bama!
Just another cheap political trick.
23
posted on
03/23/2007 5:47:07 PM PDT
by
OldSmaj
(Death to islam. I am now and will always be, a sworn enemy of all things muslim.)
To: Larry Lucido
24
posted on
03/23/2007 5:49:15 PM PDT
by
wayne_b24
(every day in the Light is a good day...)
To: Argus
One thing about the Democrats, at least they're never boring. They now have a Kenyan-Irish American running for president.
25
posted on
03/23/2007 5:53:02 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: Argus
This is getting friggin' ridiculous. I saw an idiot liberal today with two Obama stickers on her car. This is going to be a long election season.
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posted on
03/23/2007 6:00:55 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
To: Argus
... thus setting up for the obligatory story in 2008 about how the two candidates, whoever they are, are distant relatives. That story has popped up in every election I can remember.
To: Argus
And they traced Hillary's heritage to Transylvania...
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posted on
03/23/2007 6:13:06 PM PDT
by
joonbug
To: Argus
He's too late...Dennis Kucinich already has the leprechaun vote cornered...
29
posted on
03/23/2007 6:13:39 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
("...Mindless pack of trained Maoist circus seals."-www.iowahwk.typepad.com)
To: Argus
About a week late on this story. Or are they prepping/setting precident for next years photo ops?
30
posted on
03/23/2007 6:14:10 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Compromise with Islam means you will submit to them killing you!)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
I have told you his is a red-headed Irishman. Now are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?
To: Argus
All that's missing is his promise to keep a kosher kitchen at the White House.
32
posted on
03/23/2007 6:21:30 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: joonbug
And they traced Hillary's heritage to Transylvania...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
And even Dracula himself would not claim kin to her!!
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posted on
03/23/2007 6:33:41 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
To: incredulous joe
Sure and the Black and Tans are upon us again!
But everyone knows ye don't have to be Irish, to be Irish!
An O'Bama, ye say? You're of the auld sod, surely!
Only there's just one more question, me lad: Catholic or Protestant!!?
(I hear me banshee calling.)
To: wayne_b24
Thanks. I thought something didn't look right. :-)
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posted on
03/23/2007 7:22:14 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(RIP Mr. Brightside)
To: al baby
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posted on
03/23/2007 7:22:49 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(RIP Mr. Brightside)
To: elcid1970
"Only there's just one more question, me lad: Catholic or Protestant!!? (I hear me banshee calling.)"
Cid, tis but a wee brick in the general vicinity of yer skull.
When in the north and the question Catholic or Protestant arises simply answer "That's right, I'll have another."
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posted on
03/23/2007 10:21:32 PM PDT
by
incredulous joe
("Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." -- Groucho Marx)
To: Dante3
What is Black and Irish and just lies around in the sun all day long?
Patio Furniture.
38
posted on
03/23/2007 10:25:04 PM PDT
by
Keli Kilohana
(Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
To: RipSawyer
Re: "And even Dracula himself would not claim kin to her!!"
BTW, both Bush and Kerry have common ancenstry to Dracula (Vlad)
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posted on
03/23/2007 10:26:07 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
To: Argus
bambi gets around like a
raquetball.
40
posted on
03/23/2007 10:28:01 PM PDT
by
ken21
(it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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