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Obama 'genealogy' may be pure speculation

Date published: 7/6/2008

Obama 'genealogy' may be pure speculation

I find it disturbing that The Free Lance-Star couldn't come up with a better article than the one titled "Can Virginia add Obama to its leadership legacy?" [June 21].

Even with the question mark, the article reads to me as if the purported ancestry is valid in the eyes of the author.

Genealogy without full documentation for each individual in the ancestral chain is not genealogy. Rather, it's speculation.

If Sen. Obama had achieved anything that placed him in the same light as James Madison and Robert E. Lee, the article would have been newsworthy.

Pondering all the events around the globe and in outer space, surely there was more compelling and pertinent news available for your centerpiece article than this piece of fluff.

We have seen that many people in the past have voted for political candidates only because of name recognition and sound bites. The Free Lance-Star has just reaped additional ballots for Sen. Obama.

Johnny Brooks

Bealeton



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Date published: 7/6/2008


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I don't understand.. (posted by slarrivee , July 23, 2008 11:52 am)   
You guys are talking politicians/politics and truth at the same time and everyone knows these are two distinctly separate animals. They go together like oil and water.

imready - truth (posted by theobc , July 23, 2008 12:00 am)   
is that what you call it? i know it was so getting so deep and it had this funky smell to it, i didn't think it was the truth though.

obamas just a puppet (posted by rwm1980 , July 22, 2008 10:19 pm)   
hes a member of the cfr a 32nd degree free mason and is not for the people of the united states! if he was he would with a quickness abolish the federal reserve. you know that private corporation that he accumulated extreme wealth buy the take over of our currency in 1913! him bush and cheney are also cousins! lol lets not forget that he anounced zbig brezinski to be his foreign policy advisor you know the guy that started the jihadist movement!

theobc OF COURSE (posted by imready , July 22, 2008 6:34 pm)   
You can't handle the truth.

imready (posted by theobc , July 21, 2008 10:13 pm)   

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