[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently they have signatures by Thomas Walker to compare which is why they are saying it is the same man. He was killed in a mutiny by his own sailors, so he just wasn't mean to Africans.

He would be one of George W. Bush's 4th-great-grandfathers--one of 64 ancestors at that number of generations back. Since he was an ancestor of GWB's paternal grandmother, GWB has neither his Y-chromosome nor his mitochondrial DNA, and may not have inherited any genetic material from him at all.

Still, it's a good thing this did not come out in 2004 in time for Sixty Minutes to hype the story.

All this negative publicity about slave traders would make it impossible for Nathan Bedford Forrest to run for President, if he was still alive.

[NathanR]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Rebel general and a founding member of the KKK. He would never have been allowed to run for president, even as a Democrat.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t believe I have any relatives back in my family tree that owned slaves. What if I did? I couldn’t change it. It has nothing to do with me.

I complain about Bush quite a bit, but this is worthless nonsense.

People can’t stand that Obama has destroyed himself and people are tired of it. So now they think they can sling mud at everyone and folks will forget about Obama.

Isn’t going to happen that way.

[clearcarbon]

"Apparently they have signatures by Thomas Walker to compare which is why they are saying it is the same man."

I wonder how much more effort it would take to find his birth certificate?