Posted on 03/12/2007 6:22:22 PM PDT by melt
Fresh off their discovery of Rev. Al Sharpton's slave ancestry and ties to Strom Thurmond, Ancestry.com has just announced that they have found traces of Ireland in Barack Obama's family tree.
According to their research 19-year-old Falmouth Kearney, Obama's third great grandfather, sailed from Ireland, landing in New York harbor on March 20, 1850.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypress.com ...
HOLY SHIITE!!!
Next we'll find out his Ancestors fought for the Confederacy!
Any more demographics we can hit???
Well, first he was Abraham Lincoln, then George Washington, then a slave owner, a Southern Baptist with an accent, and now he's an Irishman.
Since Hillary claims to be JFK, I guess his only alternative is to be whoever Rich Little decides he should be next...
Not a songwriter - just something I noticed a long time ago when my hippie friends were trying to convince me to like U2.
btt
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