Posted on 03/30/2008 9:03:05 PM PDT by moonpie57
As some of the above connections make clear, Senator Obama has a large number of distant notable cousins. The easiest to trace are the FitzRandolph, Duvall, and Eltonhead descendants. Through Edward FitzRandolph, the Senator may claim distant kinship to Confederate General James Longstreet, AT&T founder Theodore Newton Vail, First Lady Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (first wife of Woodrow Wilson), and artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Mareen Duvall descendants include President Harry Truman (via Duvall, Tyler, Holmes, and Truman families), Vice-President Richard Bruce Cheney (via Duvalls and Tylers), and perhaps the late Bessie Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor. Eltonhead descendants include Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence, Continental Congress President Cyrus Griffin, Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, Jr., novelist John Dos Passos, Secretary of State Edward Riley Stettinus, Jr., and the wives of Revolutionary statesman Gouverneur Morris, Francis Scott Key, Edwin McMasters Stanton (Lincoln’s Secretary of War), and Senator Harry Flood Byrd. Kinships to living notables are now being traced. Tantalizing possibilities we wish to confirm further include astronaut John Glenn, actor Brad Pitt, filmmaker John Waters, and musicians Justin Timberlake and Loudon and Rufus Wainwright
With ancestry, like the Presidents Bush in New England, the mid-Atlantic states, and the South Senator Obama is certainly related to millions of contemporary Americans – perhaps even a significant percentage of the population.
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And when are they going to give us the “official” lineage on his papa’s side?
What’s with this checking out ancestries? Who gives a rats butt what their lineage is? Is this supposed to make us go “ooooh, that’s so cool, I think I’ll vote for him”? Barf bags all around!
I recall that ancestral linage has been investigated for all presidents. It is just an interest some people have and the news gets spread, and you read it. Nothing new.
We are all related to Adam and Eve.
Some more indirectly than others.
So?
I don’t agree. Why is this the only one we have in press? I have never heard this lineage garbage before and I believe it is to try and paint a better picture for Hussein Obama.
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