Hi all;
Back from the holidays. Hope you all had great time during yours.

Alexis;
I daresay Obama’s ancestry is much closer to the Bush & Cheney family trees than Lincoln. It took me a while following your link to find what Family Forest might be referring to. Granted many of our presidents were related, but in tracing Lincoln’s tree back to the 1500′s, I fail to see this common ancestor they allege, nor do they provide the Lincoln connection in their PDF link of Obama’s ancestors, nor do any of the other names given there crop up. Ref:
http://familyforest.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/family-forest-kinship-report-of-barack-obama4.pdf

I do see Herbert Hoover, G.W. Bush, and a link to the Cheney family listed. Family Forest does not show exactly how he is supposedly linked to George Washington, as the various stories also claim. I do see an Elizabeth Washington listed, but I also see a lot of Hinckley’s. It doesn’t mean anything unless you can actually make the connections. But how funny is that? Obama could be related to the guy who attempted to assassinate President Reagan?

The only name I see that comes close to the family tree is Elizabeth Boone, who if she was perhaps a descendant of Daniel Boone would connect Obama through our Berry line to the Hanks, but only by marriage, not by blood. Sorry, not close enough by genealogical standards to call a common ancestor.

Regardless, you are of course touting the very same “white” heritage of his family tree that he long ago threw under the bus in his efforts to ignore his elite white heritage to politically exploit his lesser black heritage. How cool is that? What’s more, BHO is only; what 6% black? And as has been pointed out, his black family tree comes directly from his connections to his father in Africa and has no relationship to any American ancestors who were enslaven.

It’s easy to create unsubstantiated rumors as to who one might be related to. In the Family Forest link you provided, they admit their information hasn’t been confirmed. It means nothing in genealogy unless you can back the claim up with documentational evidence. Besides, his heritage has no bearing on how Obama will lead this country. Lincoln was second-third cousin to several members of Quantrille’s Raiders, a band of Confederate border raiding outlaws whose surviving members would later join Jesse Jame’s gang. That didn’t effect how Lincoln ran his administration, now did it?

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I guess he’s going to have a hard time changing that.

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He’s also related to the Cheney’s, how cool is that?

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President Lincoln and President Obama share ancestors!

How cool is that.

http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/president-lincoln-and-president-obama-share-ancestors/

Wishing the best for our new President on the eve of his Presidential Inauguration.

Aloha!!!!!!

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The media and country should let the left-wing illuminati actually get in and attempt to do something before they start giving them credit or making comparisons.

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[...] » Newsweek Compares Obama To Lincoln Posted in November 18th, 2008 by in Uncategorized Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Newsweek Compares Obama To Lincoln He will probably govern like a statue in a park… doing absolutely nothing like his voting record [...]

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Good read, Obama/FDR:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122705663771939523.html

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Lincoln was right about the MexAm War? Didn’t we get the West from that war, including California, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado?
Oh, well maybe he was right.

As for Obama being Lincoln, hogwash (and my apologies to the hogs). Obama being humble?
Did Lincoln have a faux West Wing built for his inauguration? Did Lincoln create his own faux Presidential seal and logo? Did Lincoln claim to be Messianic? Even the Son of God did not go to the lengths of Obama in promoting Himself. Yet, Obama is ‘humble’?
Did Lincoln write an autobiography before he accomplished anything of note? But Obama did, and yet Obama is ‘humble’. No Obama is humbug. He is Reagan without substance, all surface, little substance. That’s why Obama had to hire all Clinton aides (even Clinton had more substance than Obama will ever have) because Obama’s an empty suit.
Did Lincoln pal around with Confederates? Did he think secession was a good thing?
Did he pal around with Indian revolutionaries and their apologists? No, but Obama had comparable friends and allowed them to his Eleciton Night party in Grant Park.
One man had principles of Country First, the other man always puts himself FIRST above his Country.

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Snerd Gunk: Lincoln said, and I am paraphrasing because I do not have the exact quote in front of me, “You do not build up a man’s house be destroying another’s.”

Obama wants to take from those who work hard, study, save, sacrifice, pay taxes, send their kids to school, and give it to those who do none of these things.

He sounds more Marxist than Lincolnesque.

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Obama sure did say he was going to do a lot………of tax raising and industry destroying.

He said he would, “spread the wealth around.” He said he would raise the capital gains tax even that would reduce the governments income because, “it is the fair thing to do.” He never did say to whom it would be fair.

He sounds more Marxist than Lincolnesque

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