True. It's been done before. He could have invented a fictional Irish grandfather from several generations ago. It would give a whole new meaning to "Black Irish."
But sure, seriously, many Jewish immigrants and those from Eastern and Southern Europe "re-ethnicized " their surnames at Ellis island.
Like Atillio to Alito.
He’s actually part Irish.
“Maybe he should spell it O’Bama.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269836,00.html
“It was initially believed the would-be president’s great-great-great-grandfather Fulmuth Kearney was the only one of his family to have sailed from Ireland to New York at age 19 in 1850. But the newly uncovered records show other family members had in fact emigrated to America since the 1790s.”
Some of his supporters have already used the spelling O’Bama .