And heads commenced to explode...

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/07/31/obama_descended_from_first_slave.html

July 31, 2012

Obama Descended from First Slave

Ancestry.com has discovered that John Punch, the first African enslaved for life in America, was the 11th great-grandfather of President Obama.

CNN notes researchers "found the new connection to the president's African roots through an unlikely link, that of Obama's Caucasian mother. President Obama's African American roots had previously been tied to his father's Kenyan birth. But as genealogists were pouring through documents tracing Stanley Ann Dunham's ancestors, they found a connection to the Bunch family which had recently published DNA evidence that they had roots in sub-Saharan Africa."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. That means Obama's family pre-dates many members of the DAR.

[DetlefK]

3. That's nothing. I have an ancestor that lived in Africa tens of millenia before it was cool.

[nc4bo]

2. Obama descended from human beings.

Imagine that?

Keep riling up the teabaggin of your base fellas - they're the only ones that give a shit..

[1-Old-Man]

4. Is this supposed to prove that he's too black to vote for?

I saw some crap a couple of days ago that suggested that his mother wasn't actually white, which would have come as quite a surprise to her parents. I think the aim here is to suggest that the man is just too black to vote for.

[babylonsister]

5. I think it takes the wind out of the sails of all the morons

who claim he's not 'American' enough. He's more 'American' than most of those said morons.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I sent an email to the director of news this morning. Our local TV station

ran this crap last night saying how 'scientists' had made this discovery of the President's 'roots'. I blasted away with the quote that Ancestry.com had 'no definitive link' and how the whole 'story' was put out there to prove President Obama is too black to run the country. Awaiting a reply I know will never come.