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Genealogists Say Obama, Sen.-Elect Brown Related
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Posted on 01/29/2010 8:00:09 AM PST by Dallas

Genealogists said Friday the Democratic president and the newly elected Massachusetts senator, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins. It was bad enough that President Obama lost his filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate to a Republican. Now it turns out he also lost it to a relative. Genealogists said Friday the Democratic president and the newly elected Massachusetts senator, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins.

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1 posted on 01/29/2010 8:00:10 AM PST by Dallas
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To: Dallas

Obama said the genealogists “acted stupidly.”


2 posted on 01/29/2010 8:02:14 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama lies, Freedom dies)
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To: Dallas

It seems like Obama is related to everyone! I hope I never find out I’m related to him, because then that would mean my precious children and grandchildren would also be related to him.


3 posted on 01/29/2010 8:02:52 AM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: Dallas

Brown’s from Kenya?


4 posted on 01/29/2010 8:03:01 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: Dallas

I think the geneologists are desperately trying to find a bloodline to Mary Magdalen.


5 posted on 01/29/2010 8:06:14 AM PST by Never on my watch (Liberalism has NEVER made anything better)
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To: Dallas
On his mom's side, or his dad's side?

< bada bing >
6 posted on 01/29/2010 8:06:25 AM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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To: Dallas
Obviously they are related through Obama's white ancestors. I wonder if the common ancestors are Obama's slaveholding ancestors or the non-slaveholding ones?

I don't blame Scott Brown for this. You can't pick your relatives.

7 posted on 01/29/2010 8:07:04 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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...and as soon as Brown is sworn in, Obama will be throwing him under the bus with his white racist grandmother! Because family should be together, you know!


8 posted on 01/29/2010 8:07:33 AM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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To: Verginius Rufus
I wonder if the common ancestors are Obama's slaveholding ancestors or the non-slaveholding ones?

Boy, that's tough for him. He actually owes himself reparations.

9 posted on 01/29/2010 8:10:11 AM PST by Never on my watch (Liberalism has NEVER made anything better)
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To: Dallas

If a 10th cousin is a ‘relative’, why not just acknowledge we all come from the same original stock and get it over with? Barry and I are relatives too! Thankfully that doesn’t mean we share ideologies.


10 posted on 01/29/2010 8:10:17 AM PST by DesertSapper (God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
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To: Dallas

If I were Senator Brown, I’d demand a recount!


11 posted on 01/29/2010 8:10:44 AM PST by EscapedDutch ("Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money" - Lady Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Dallas

How did they find those records?


12 posted on 01/29/2010 8:11:20 AM PST by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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How did they find those records?

Terrific question!

13 posted on 01/29/2010 8:12:25 AM PST by Never on my watch (Liberalism has NEVER made anything better)
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To: Never on my watch

“I think the geneologists are desperately trying to find a bloodline to Mary Magdalen.”

LOL Do they give out “Post of the Year” awards here at Free Republic? This should win it!


14 posted on 01/29/2010 8:18:10 AM PST by AvgGuyIA (After the Massachusetts Massacre, I wrote my Congressman and told him "You're next!")
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To: murron

I am actually related to him - distant cousin of some sort but I never tell people that I am. Not something I am proud of.


15 posted on 01/29/2010 8:18:22 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Never on my watch

Barry’s minions are re-writing his birth certificate as we speak!


16 posted on 01/29/2010 8:18:52 AM PST by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messiah. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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Dom Delouise is my cousin!


17 posted on 01/29/2010 8:21:17 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Dallas
10th cousin is pretty remote. (I don't know any relatives who are more distant than 7th or 8th cousin.) George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle are 10th cousins.

Barbara Bush and both Presidents Bush are distant cousins of President Franklin Pierce (Pierce is Barbara Bush's maiden name.) None of President Pierce's children lived to maturity, so he has no living descendants, but that hasn't stopped the New York Times from repeatedly calling George W. Bush a descendant of Franklin Pierce.

In fact, George H. W. Bush is a 4th cousin, 7 times removed, of Benedict Arnold (so George W. Bush would be a 4th cousin, 8 times removed). As far as I know, the NYT has never tried to use that relationship against either of the Bushes--whether they don't know who Benedict Arnold was, or they think being a traitor is a positive recommendation.

18 posted on 01/29/2010 8:23:47 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: neodad
"Brown’s from Kenya?",

"NORTH" Kenya, where all da white wimin izat.

19 posted on 01/29/2010 8:28:56 AM PST by sniper63 ("Ask not what your Country can do for you but what you can do for your Country,)
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Yeah, and Obama is my 20th cousin. Seriously, do these geneologists not have anything better to do? Let me guess, they were given stimulus money to sit around doing this type of research


20 posted on 01/29/2010 8:29:27 AM PST by Wee-Weed Up
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