The best they can do to smear Barack Obama?

[proud2BlibKansan]

You’ve Gotta Be Kidding Me
Posted by Todd Mitchell
March 3rd, 2007 @ 8:16 am

This is the best they can do to smear Barack Obama?

WASHINGTON, March 2 — Genealogists have uncovered a new ingredient in the melting pot identity of Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat who hopes to become the first black president. His white maternal ancestors once owned slaves.

“The genealogists, led by William Addams Reitwiesner, studied the family history of Mr. Obama’s mother and determined that Mr. Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfather, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves listed in the 1850 census in Nelson County, Ky. Mr. Obama’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother, Mary Duval, also owned two slaves, the records show. ”

Y’know what? My great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Tombstone Mitchell, once shot a conservative, just to watch him die.

Predictably the wingnuts are going ape over it. “We wonder if this news is shocking to Al Sharpton?”

more . . .
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/

[muntrv]

1. John McCain is also a descendant of slave owners.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. So am I

I guess that rules out a political career, eh?

[Wickerman]

3. at least the Obama family learned something and has changed their ways

Still conservative 5 greats later? Shame on McCain.

[dogman]

4. Chicago Sun Times says Edwards also.

Can't let Obama and Sharpton have the edge here.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/281332,CST-NWS-oside03.article

Snip>Reitwiesner found that two other presidential candidates were descendants of slave owners -- Republican John McCain and Democrat John Edwards.<snip

Not unlike our present economy that depends on the equivalent of slave labor.

[Imagevision]

5. Freedom of the press, Obama should merely create his own black-book list for journalists,

like he did with putting FOXnews in their place for reporting false stories...

[rebel with a cause]

6. He wouldn't be giving any interviews then,

because almost all of them are tools for the right wingers. :7

[BlooInBloo]

7. He MUST be the first candidate whose anscestor owned slaves!

Because I don't recall hearing about this for ANY other candidate in my lifetime.

:rofl:

White folks crack me up.

[Solo_in_MD]

8. Does that mean he pays reparations to himself

Damn this is funny...and if it helps to put to rest the assinine calls for reparations, it would be a good thing