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Scott Brown Is Obama's Cousin

Both their mothers descended from 17th-century Massachusetts man

By amercier,  Newser User

Posted Jan 30, 2010 10:02 PM CST | Promoted on Newser Jan 31, 2010 5:31 AM CST
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(User Submitted) – A genealogy group has discovered that Barack Obama has an unlikely branch on the right wing of his family tree—Massachusetts senator-elect Scott Brown is his 10th cousin through a 17th-century Bay State ancestor from whom both men's mothers descended. The New England Historic Genealogical Society had previously found the president is also related to seven of his Oval Office predecessors, Brad Pitt, and investor Warren Buffet, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Meet Scott Brown, the filibuster buster and President Obama's 10th cousin through a 102-year-old Massachusetts man who died in 1687.
Meet Scott Brown, the filibuster buster and President Obama's 10th cousin through a 102-year-old Massachusetts man who died in 1687.   (AP)
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AdaptAndOvercome
Feb 1, 2010 12:36 PM CST
Like most of you who are biased and don't like Obama, you will only read what you've been told and don't get the full context of the message or since you didn't actually read the entire book, didn't get the full context of the entire book as a whole. And since when has politics been exclusively for whites. Since the black man was freed, he's been involved in politics. It just took people like you and yours, well I take that back, people like you still don't support it, but white people that are open minded to finally see that it is not the color of the skin that makes you qualified to hold a public office, but the knowledge and understanding of what needs to be done. That which our last President and his party of NO were clueless about.
kokuaguy
Feb 1, 2010 11:22 AM CST
Did your heart throb Palin release her grade transcripts, prowler? Of course not. They are irrelevant and just lead to demands for ever more fodder for the VRWC to make hay with. I keep asking you why you can't get past your resentment and hate when the Clintons have done so for the good of their nation. But so far no response, just the same old repetitive posting of bile and spin. Talk about your bots.
hankhill
Feb 1, 2010 4:57 AM CST
i knew it nepotisim ba

 
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