Racial heritage of six former presidents is questioned (Auto-hurl)

Pittsburgh Post Gazette ^ | 2/05/08 | Monica Haynes

[Libloather]

David J. Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower on their wedding day, September 23, 1885. They are the parents of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mrs. Eisenhower was rumored to have black ancestry.

And if Al Sharpton has a white great, great, great, great grandmother, he's white.

[Charles Henrickson]

as Sen. Barack Obama takes what he hopes will be one more step toward becoming the nation's first black president. . . .

Or our 44th white president, take your pick.

[rocksblues]

OH MY GOD!

[DoughtyOne]

If Obama gets elected, he's the first Black president.

To hell with these revisionists. What a bunch of chumps.

[peyton randolph]

So Abraham Lincoln was both black and gay? GOP diversity. /sarc

[Arcy]

Maybe Bill Clinton wasn’t our first black president after all.

[Charles Henrickson]

And Jewish.

[Tennessee Nana]

Bill Clinton was not on the list
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Whoops

Had to be an oversight

/s

[decimon]

Four Republicans and one Democrat. The Pubs are the party of change.

[frithguild]

Dwight Eisenhower?!?!?!?!

That's one of the whitest looking white men I have ever seen!

[Cyropaedia]

David J. Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower on their wedding day, September 23, 1885. They are the parents of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

They were devout pacifists. Yet their son grew up to be a Five Star General.

[Right Wing Assault]

Hmmm. Ike on the right sure has some features of a black man.

[peyton randolph]

And Jewish.

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ROTFLMAO. With a name like Abraham, he could be our first Muzzie prez too, beating out Barack Hussein Osama Obama. ;-)

[Pontiac]

"That's not an uncommon occurrence in American politics," said Russell Riley, presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. "Because race is such a sensitive issue in American politics, it is an easy target for an unscrupulous campaigner to make a claim that somebody has a particular ancestry that the majority of the population is less likely to support."

The only well researched paragraph in the article.

The rest is all the repetition of old lies.

[therut]

Yes and they were all GAY.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Why is this article an 'auto-hurl?'

The 'one drop' concept is [in]famous.

Probably one of the 43 Presidents had at least Amerindian ancestry.

[Charles Henrickson]

Maybe he’s related to Rev. Ike.

[popdonnelly]

Yep, most of the black people in America have some white ancestry. But it’s not helpful to claim white ancestry.

Reminds of the white guy who failed the fire department test. He researched his ancestry, and found that he was something like one-sixteenth African. He qualified for admission on a lower test score.

[Eternal_Bear]

Curtis who was Veep under Hoover is the only known Native American to get to that level.

Buchanan was probably the first and only known gay president.

Harding probably had some black ancestry.

According to the study of jefferson's male relatives, it seems that he was of Phoenician-Carthaginian (Lebanese) descent passed from male to male to male.

LBJ was technically the first jew. His mother could trace straight matrilineal descent to a jewish ancestress.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Maybe Bill Clinton wasn’t our first black president after all.

The lying, impeached, rapist may have infested the Oval Office for eight years, but he was NEVER my President! As far as I'm concerned, the office was vacant from Jan 20th, 1993 until George W. Bush was sworn in on Jan 20th, 2001.