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Obama misses DAR's Continental Congress
Conservative Woman ^ | 11-04-2009 | Julie Smith

Posted on 11/04/2009 4:50:42 PM PST by plain talk

Not something that would make national headlines, but did not miss a stunned audience, President Barack Obama became the first American president in 118 years to abstain from the same long tradition of addressing the Daughters Of the American Revolution (DAR) Continental Congress, named after the governing body of the American Colonies during the American Revolution.

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To: muawiyah; SunkenCiv
Do you happen to know, genealogically speaking, if Ann Dunham would have been eligible for membership in the DAR?

Don't her & her son's ancestors go back to pre-Revolutionary America? Thanks.

21 posted on 11/04/2009 5:14:50 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: plain talk

from the link’s website:
“What could have been so important in the President’s schedule that would make him miss, in my words dis, Continental Congress? President Obama was meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Russian President Medvedev at the Kremlin and instead addressed the 2009 graduating class of the New Economic School at Gostinny Dvor and later met world leaders at the G8 Summit.”

obviously he had his priorities...cough, cough...


22 posted on 11/04/2009 5:17:48 PM PST by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: plain talk

typical white women


23 posted on 11/04/2009 5:23:47 PM PST by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
President Barack Obama became the first American president in 118 years to abstain from the same long tradition of addressing the Daughters Of the American Revolution (DAR) Continental Congress, named after the governing body of the American Colonies during the American Revolution.
It's an even older political tradition called boycotting.
24 posted on 11/04/2009 5:23:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: mojito

Even though he is more white then Arab and African.
I like that Ittie Bitty.............descriptive.


25 posted on 11/04/2009 5:27:18 PM PST by mcshot (It's WE THE PEOPLE!. Don't like our Constitution then get OUT on the 0 boat.)
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To: plain talk

Hates the country, not a surprise. MSM: Nothing to see here.


26 posted on 11/04/2009 5:27:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: plain talk


27 posted on 11/04/2009 5:32:19 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: hennie pennie
Best I can tell Ann Dunham would have been eligible for Colonial Dames (both societies operating under that name), and it'd been a cakewalk for her to get into the DAR.

With a little bit of work I think there's a case that whole crowd would be eligible for membership in the Oneida Indian tribe (and I may well pursue my own application for that ~ btw, all that information is "secret" so I'm not going to upset the applecart by revealing all that I know.)

Obama's grandmother had one of the most illustrious genealogies anyone in America could have. It's all on the internet back to the Revolution, and in parts earlier. I have much of the information regarding individuals named in the earliest parts of that genealogy and can take a good deal of it back to Scandinavia and France (which is the part in which I've been specializing).

28 posted on 11/04/2009 5:34:51 PM PST by muawiyah (Git Out The Way)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
Is he going to attend the conference of the Daughters of the Muslim Brotherhood?

Possibly, but I predict (you heard ti here first), that zero will be the 1st US President to fly Air Force One to Mecca for his Haj...

29 posted on 11/04/2009 5:48:25 PM PST by GunnyB (Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
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To: hennie pennie

I don’t know.

Most people in the United States have pre-Revolutionary Colonial ancestors, but may not know it. Just off the top of the head, I’ve got at least five different family lines that go back that far, and at least four out of five of them served to overthrow British monarchic rule.

Of course, everyone has ancestors as old as everyone else’s, but that’s a different discussion... ;’)


30 posted on 11/04/2009 5:48:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SandRat

No, he won’t be attending the Belles of the Confederacy Ball ‘cause he can’t be queen of the Ball...but let’s just call him “Belle” anyway.


31 posted on 11/04/2009 5:52:37 PM PST by itssme
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To: a fool in paradise
Just a Jakarta street kid

That 'bout sums it up.

32 posted on 11/04/2009 5:53:55 PM PST by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property....)
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To: plain talk

My husband’s aunt who is in her 80’s and a lifelong member of DAR. I just sent her the link and boy is she gonna be unhappy. I read all the comments and there were some pissed off little ladies on the site.


33 posted on 11/04/2009 5:55:38 PM PST by joesjane (The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Regulator

He boasted of it at one time. He was schooled abroad and has seemed resentful of the American system.

He lied about his parents coming together 5 years AFTER his birth (5 years+9months after they did it) because of what happened in Selma Alabama.

He spins myths about this nation but does not celebrate anything about it.


34 posted on 11/04/2009 5:56:11 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: itssme
..queen of the Ball..

Barney Fwank wants that acclaim.

35 posted on 11/04/2009 5:57:07 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: plain talk

And the fall of the Berlin Wall, also!! He is PATHETIC!!


36 posted on 11/04/2009 6:05:30 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: plain talk
Obama is so over confident that he now thmbs his nose at his enemies.

He already has a list.

The DAR members should now know that Obama is indeed an enemy of the Republic, and of conservatives inn particular.Obama will destroy every one of them if he can.

37 posted on 11/04/2009 6:06:44 PM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: WellyP

I detest the bastard, too. But I’m glad he didn’t show up. Having a Marxist show up for a continental congress is more than my frontal lobes can handle.


38 posted on 11/04/2009 6:21:56 PM PST by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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To: SandRat

Yes, he would be a better choice, and he has the dresses to prove it!


39 posted on 11/04/2009 6:23:30 PM PST by itssme
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To: ErnBatavia

Were I a member of the DAR, I would have enjoyed sending the president a thank you note for not showing up.


40 posted on 11/04/2009 6:28:37 PM PST by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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