Digging

4:00 am EST March 2nd, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

Remember all the bitching and moaning because the “far left mainstream media, in cahoots with the ‘Democrat’ party and international communism” looked into polygamy in Mitt Romney’s genealogy? Ahem.

According to the research, one of Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfathers, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 Census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records show that one of Obama’s great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves.

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6 Responses to “Digging”

  1. JWG says:
    March 2, 2007 at 8:33 am

    Let’s see…

    From OW we got the following pearls of wisdom out of the Romney thread:

    Meet The Romneys

    and

    First off, it’s an AP story…

    and

    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

    From Duros we got:

    it’s teh funny

    While everyone else in the thread condemned the media (without resorting to characterizations of the media as “far left”, “in cahoots”, or “communism”).

    I’ll repeat that this stupid practice by the media is disgusting no matter who the victim is.

    I suppose now we’ll see OW and Duros do the same…finally.

  2. mike in dc says:
    March 2, 2007 at 10:19 am

    Wait, his mother’s ancestors used to own slaves?

    That’s shock…

    oh wait, most African-Americans have slaveowner ancestors in their lineage, for some peculiar reason…

  3. JWG says:
    March 2, 2007 at 10:56 am

    most

    Would you care to back that up?

  4. Duros62 says:
    March 2, 2007 at 11:45 am

    I’ll repeat that this stupid practice by the media is disgusting no matter who the victim is.

    Dude, what’d I say?
    I agree with you. The media as a whole needs a hard re-boot, no question about it.

  5. mike in dc says:
    March 2, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    JWG,
    “most” is possibly an exaggeration on my part. But a USA today article on DNA ancestry research by African-Americans indicates that 30% had a white male ancestor.

  6. vwcat says:
    March 2, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    does this mean Obama is really not black enough?