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	<title>Comments on: Lynne Cheney: &#8216;Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins.&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: Spooky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Spooky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just so you know... Karl Rove was the infamous understudy of President Nixon&#039;s dirty-tricks man Donald Segretti. He did a similar successful obfuscation operation against Alan Dixon. That time it was about fictitious &#039;beer parties&#039;. When Karl Rove recently resigned from Whitehouse what did he say he would be doing?  Dove hunting? No, listen carefully to CNN&#039;s John King&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/13/rove.resign/index.html#cnnSTCVideo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just so you know&#8230; Karl Rove was the infamous understudy of President Nixon&#8217;s dirty-tricks man Donald Segretti. He did a similar successful obfuscation operation against Alan Dixon. That time it was about fictitious &#8216;beer parties&#8217;. When Karl Rove recently resigned from Whitehouse what did he say he would be doing?  Dove hunting? No, listen carefully to CNN&#8217;s John King&#8217;s <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/13/rove.resign/index.html#cnnSTCVideo" rel="nofollow">report</a>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4125666', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Shinning Light</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shinning Light</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When people trace their genealogy they usually do it just for their family.   I&#039;d like to know why she thought it necessary to trace Obama&#039;s too?   No doubt hoping to dig up some dirt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When people trace their genealogy they usually do it just for their family.   I&#8217;d like to know why she thought it necessary to trace Obama&#8217;s too?   No doubt hoping to dig up some dirt.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4125520', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Spooky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Spooky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ermmm... Barack IS indeed African-American (i.e. a mullato). He was BORN in America otherwise he wouldn&#039;t be able to run for President. His late dad (Sr.) was from Nairobi Kenyan. Ummmm... KENYA is in AFRICA last time I checked! His late mother Stanley &quot;Ann&quot; DUNHAM was (died in 1995) Caucasian or European-American? Here is how Barrack is related to Duvall: suntimes.com/images/cds/special/family_tree.html

But that doesn&#039;t explain why she answered this way. She did the same thing on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She totally evaded an innocent/simple question about Dick admitting error around the home. She got all &#039;verclempt&#039; and changed the subject PDQ! 

This obviously proves that Karl Rove is NOT quite gone yet and is still spinning things from behind the screen like the Wizard of Oz. Dick sent his wife in to muddy the waters a bit. Its called &#039;obfuscation&#039;. It implants a festering shadow of doubt in future Obama voter&#039;s mind. Much the same way jury professionals can work (tamper with) a jury like in the movie Runaway Jury (2003) with John Cussack and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog?). This is right out of the Rovian play book. His granddad (Herr Karl Heinz Roverer) would be proud Herr Joe Goebbels proud that is. 

Barack Obama is related to Mr. Mareen Duvall (yes Mareen&#039;s a man!)? That would mean that he is also related to actor Robert Duvall and President Harry S. Truman. Here is Mareen Duvall&#039;s back story. There WAS a Maryland plantation involved folks! And Africans were NOT the only American slaves. There were Native Americans in the Caribbean during the Columbus massacre of circa 1492 and Irish American indentured servants (mainly in Canada but some were in USA too).&lt;blockquote&gt;Mareen Duvall:
&quot;He was born about 1625, in the Kingdom of France and settled on the south side of the South River in Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland circa 1655. The first tract of land patented to him in 1659 by Lord Baltimore was called &quot;Laval,&quot; the name of an ancient town, the capital of the present Department of Mayenne in France. He was a planter and merchant, and a public spirited citizen of the Province until his death in 1694. He resided at the time of his death at his estate, Middle Plantation, located on South River, and patented to him in 1664 by the Lord Proprietary. His public service consisted in part, with leadership in the Jacobite Party, and the Provincial Archives show his appointment to the Provincial Commission in 1683 by the Proprietary and Assembly, to lay out town sites and ports of entry for the encouragement of trade. He was the patentee of numerous tracts of land, and the purchaser of many others containing several thousand acres, as evidenced by the Public Land Records and his Will dated, and probated in August, 1694.&quot;

&quot;The inventory of his estate in 1694 names 18 slaves, according to a family history published in 1952.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Yes children the Cheney&#039;s kept slaves!:

&quot;Box: 29 Fold: 2 White Marsh-Varia [102 T1-W5]
DATE SPAN: [01/01/1682]? - [12/31/1765]?

DESCRIPTION: This folder [102 T1-W5] consists of varia (1682-1765) pertaining to White Marsh. Items include the following: Cheney&#039;s Plantation Survey (1722); Cheney&#039;s Plantation granted to James Carroll (1723); Assignment of right and title (1722) to James Carroll; Bond (1765) of Howard Duvall to John Lewis, S.J.; Survey and plat of Wilson&#039;s Plains; Indenture (1765) between James Green and George Hunter, S.J., for three acres called &quot;Strife&quot;; Bond of conveyance of property (1737) of James Carroll to George Thorold, S.J.; Small book (1763) contains copies of grants, deeds, surveys of Fingall in Ann Arundell County, Carrollsburg copy of certificate, inventory of Negro slaves and stock at White Marsh, Negroes at White Marsh and Fingall incapable of work; Warrant of Survey for James Carroll (1719); Survey of Riley&#039;s Horse Pasture (1712); Assignment of land (1682) by Robert Jones to George Yates; Survey for George Yates (1682); Grant of Carrollsburg (1722) by Charles Calvert [Lord Baltimore] to James Carroll.

Source: library.georgetown.edu&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Barack&#039;s mom, the late Stanley &quot;Ann&quot; Dunham,  obviously has ancestral links to the Mareen (a slave owner) through her dad.  Her ancestors could have been Irish indentured servants or where just &#039;kinfolk&#039;. Yes that would mean that Barack&#039;s ancestors were slave owners. But that&#039;s not unusual as many Native Americans (Choctaws) and some Blacks (Creoles) - both Louisiana - were slave owners back then too. He is not responsible for the sins of the father... Plus slave ownership was so institutionalized that it was common in Abolitionists states like Connecticut.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Spooky</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ermmm&#8230; Barack IS indeed African-American (i.e. a mullato). He was BORN in America otherwise he wouldn&#8217;t be able to run for President. His late dad (Sr.) was from Nairobi Kenyan. Ummmm&#8230; KENYA is in AFRICA last time I checked! His late mother Stanley &#8220;Ann&#8221; DUNHAM was (died in 1995) Caucasian or European-American? Here is how Barrack is related to Duvall: suntimes.com/images/cds/special/family_tree.html</p>
<p>But that doesn&#8217;t explain why she answered this way. She did the same thing on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She totally evaded an innocent/simple question about Dick admitting error around the home. She got all &#8216;verclempt&#8217; and changed the subject PDQ! </p>
<p>This obviously proves that Karl Rove is NOT quite gone yet and is still spinning things from behind the screen like the Wizard of Oz. Dick sent his wife in to muddy the waters a bit. Its called &#8216;obfuscation&#8217;. It implants a festering shadow of doubt in future Obama voter&#8217;s mind. Much the same way jury professionals can work (tamper with) a jury like in the movie Runaway Jury (2003) with John Cussack and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog?). This is right out of the Rovian play book. His granddad (Herr Karl Heinz Roverer) would be proud Herr Joe Goebbels proud that is. </p>
<p>Barack Obama is related to Mr. Mareen Duvall (yes Mareen&#8217;s a man!)? That would mean that he is also related to actor Robert Duvall and President Harry S. Truman. Here is Mareen Duvall&#8217;s back story. There WAS a Maryland plantation involved folks! And Africans were NOT the only American slaves. There were Native Americans in the Caribbean during the Columbus massacre of circa 1492 and Irish American indentured servants (mainly in Canada but some were in USA too).<br />
<blockquote>Mareen Duvall:<br />
&#8220;He was born about 1625, in the Kingdom of France and settled on the south side of the South River in Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland circa 1655. The first tract of land patented to him in 1659 by Lord Baltimore was called &#8220;Laval,&#8221; the name of an ancient town, the capital of the present Department of Mayenne in France. He was a planter and merchant, and a public spirited citizen of the Province until his death in 1694. He resided at the time of his death at his estate, Middle Plantation, located on South River, and patented to him in 1664 by the Lord Proprietary. His public service consisted in part, with leadership in the Jacobite Party, and the Provincial Archives show his appointment to the Provincial Commission in 1683 by the Proprietary and Assembly, to lay out town sites and ports of entry for the encouragement of trade. He was the patentee of numerous tracts of land, and the purchaser of many others containing several thousand acres, as evidenced by the Public Land Records and his Will dated, and probated in August, 1694.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The inventory of his estate in 1694 names 18 slaves, according to a family history published in 1952.&#8221;
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<blockquote><p>Yes children the Cheney&#8217;s kept slaves!:</p>
<p>&#8220;Box: 29 Fold: 2 White Marsh-Varia [102 T1-W5]<br />
DATE SPAN: [01/01/1682]? &#8211; [12/31/1765]?</p>
<p>DESCRIPTION: This folder [102 T1-W5] consists of varia (1682-1765) pertaining to White Marsh. Items include the following: Cheney&#8217;s Plantation Survey (1722); Cheney&#8217;s Plantation granted to James Carroll (1723); Assignment of right and title (1722) to James Carroll; Bond (1765) of Howard Duvall to John Lewis, S.J.; Survey and plat of Wilson&#8217;s Plains; Indenture (1765) between James Green and George Hunter, S.J., for three acres called &#8220;Strife&#8221;; Bond of conveyance of property (1737) of James Carroll to George Thorold, S.J.; Small book (1763) contains copies of grants, deeds, surveys of Fingall in Ann Arundell County, Carrollsburg copy of certificate, inventory of Negro slaves and stock at White Marsh, Negroes at White Marsh and Fingall incapable of work; Warrant of Survey for James Carroll (1719); Survey of Riley&#8217;s Horse Pasture (1712); Assignment of land (1682) by Robert Jones to George Yates; Survey for George Yates (1682); Grant of Carrollsburg (1722) by Charles Calvert [Lord Baltimore] to James Carroll.</p>
<p>Source: library.georgetown.edu&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Barack&#8217;s mom, the late Stanley &#8220;Ann&#8221; Dunham,  obviously has ancestral links to the Mareen (a slave owner) through her dad.  Her ancestors could have been Irish indentured servants or where just &#8216;kinfolk&#8217;. Yes that would mean that Barack&#8217;s ancestors were slave owners. But that&#8217;s not unusual as many Native Americans (Choctaws) and some Blacks (Creoles) &#8211; both Louisiana &#8211; were slave owners back then too. He is not responsible for the sins of the father&#8230; Plus slave ownership was so institutionalized that it was common in Abolitionists states like Connecticut.</p></blockquote>
<p>Spooky<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4125507', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: El Matamoros</title>
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		<dc:creator>El Matamoros</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You people are all unbelievable -- does it not occur to a single one of you that just as Obama is half black he&#039;s also half white? I guess Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) makes you stupid as well as crazy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You people are all unbelievable &#8212; does it not occur to a single one of you that just as Obama is half black he&#8217;s also half white? I guess Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) makes you stupid as well as crazy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122756', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wijg</title>
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		<dc:creator>wijg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...The Obama campaignâ€™s response? â€œEvery family has a black sheep.â€

LOL! Perfect!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;The Obama campaignâ€™s response? â€œEvery family has a black sheep.â€</p>
<p>LOL! Perfect!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122184', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Give me back my country</title>
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		<dc:creator>Give me back my country</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whass up dickhead</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whass up dickhead<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122121', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ecthompson</title>
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		<dc:creator>ecthompson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is she smoking?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is she smoking?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122109', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: arguewithmydad</title>
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		<dc:creator>arguewithmydad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I should have said the following:
I would check Mrs. Cheney&#039;s facts.  Any claims made by someone who lives with Count Cheney can&#039;t be trusted without verification!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I should have said the following:<br />
I would check Mrs. Cheney&#8217;s facts.  Any claims made by someone who lives with Count Cheney can&#8217;t be trusted without verification!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122097', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: arguewithmydad</title>
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		<dc:creator>arguewithmydad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would check Mrs. Cheney&#039;s facts.  Anything someone who lives with Count Cheney can&#039;t be trusted without verification.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would check Mrs. Cheney&#8217;s facts.  Anything someone who lives with Count Cheney can&#8217;t be trusted without verification.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122096', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: theswan</title>
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		<dc:creator>theswan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really think she ment Osama Bin Laden, not Barack Obama.  She sometimes get confused like her husband.  It could be too much sleep.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really think she ment Osama Bin Laden, not Barack Obama.  She sometimes get confused like her husband.  It could be too much sleep.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122088', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dandy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dandy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Indeed, the true thrust of the Obama campaign for Prez now becomes very clear: as I have read through the various blogs: no one is really able to accept the reality of Obamas&#039; candidacy= HE, AS MS. CHENEY SAYS (without saying ), IS REALLY A PART OF ALL OF US.....................!!!!!

.............,...........and that really explains Obamas&#039; candidacy---he is me and you regardless off color, ethnicity, culture, etc..............</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indeed, the true thrust of the Obama campaign for Prez now becomes very clear: as I have read through the various blogs: no one is really able to accept the reality of Obamas&#8217; candidacy= HE, AS MS. CHENEY SAYS (without saying ), IS REALLY A PART OF ALL OF US&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;!!!!!</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and that really explains Obamas&#8217; candidacy&#8212;he is me and you regardless off color, ethnicity, culture, etc&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4122005', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ThinkSmart</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThinkSmart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More of classic American stupidity. The ones who make the rest of the world call us &#039;dumb&#039;. Just read:

by Rowdy: Soâ€¦ eight generations ago a Cheney master raped an Obama slave and that makes Dick and Barack cousins?!?!?! And this taints her objectivity about Hillary Clinton?!?!? What the ___ is she talking about?

by loretta: So basically sheâ€™s saying that Dick Cheneyâ€™s family were a bunch of rich southern aristocratic types who didnâ€™t want to pay taxes and owned slaves. Sick

Excuse me, is anyone of you above 5? I ask because even my neighbour&#039;s 6 year old daughter knows that Obama is the offspring of a white Kansan mother and a Kenyan father, not a descendant of slaves. If you&#039;re just a bunch of ignorant badly-raised 5 year olds playing with your parents&#039; computers, then my bad!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More of classic American stupidity. The ones who make the rest of the world call us &#8216;dumb&#8217;. Just read:</p>
<p>by Rowdy: Soâ€¦ eight generations ago a Cheney master raped an Obama slave and that makes Dick and Barack cousins?!?!?! And this taints her objectivity about Hillary Clinton?!?!? What the ___ is she talking about?</p>
<p>by loretta: So basically sheâ€™s saying that Dick Cheneyâ€™s family were a bunch of rich southern aristocratic types who didnâ€™t want to pay taxes and owned slaves. Sick</p>
<p>Excuse me, is anyone of you above 5? I ask because even my neighbour&#8217;s 6 year old daughter knows that Obama is the offspring of a white Kansan mother and a Kenyan father, not a descendant of slaves. If you&#8217;re just a bunch of ignorant badly-raised 5 year olds playing with your parents&#8217; computers, then my bad!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121921', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Coffins Draped with a Flag</title>
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		<dc:creator>Coffins Draped with a Flag</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This proves that our personality is not determined by genes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This proves that our personality is not determined by genes.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121903', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Coffins Draped with a Flag</title>
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		<dc:creator>Coffins Draped with a Flag</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She doesn&#039;t have a common ancestor with Obama, her husband dick-head does.

It&#039;s amazing that when the split occurred, one branch eventually produced a wise man of vision, Obama, and the other went to the dark side and produced  a stupid man with only a self-serving vision, Cheney.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She doesn&#8217;t have a common ancestor with Obama, her husband dick-head does.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing that when the split occurred, one branch eventually produced a wise man of vision, Obama, and the other went to the dark side and produced  a stupid man with only a self-serving vision, Cheney.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121898', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: StupidCountry</title>
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		<dc:creator>StupidCountry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is why our country is in the mess it&#039;s in today. The endless list of posters that cannot stomach the idea of Obama and Cheney being related have made it clear as to why America has lost it&#039;s way and why we are hated around the world. 

Here is what America wrote for the rest of the world to see: 

1.&quot;I think she means that Dickâ€™s family used to own Barackâ€™s family.&quot;
2. &quot;Did DICK go to a mahdrasa too?&quot;
3. &quot;Cheneyâ€™s ancesters are Black? Would have never known.&quot;
4. &quot;Soâ€¦ eight generations ago a Cheney master raped an Obama slave and that makes Dick and Barack cousins?!?!?!&quot; 
5. &quot;So basically sheâ€™s saying that Dick Cheneyâ€™s family were a bunch of rich southern aristocratic types who didnâ€™t want to pay taxes and owned slaves.&quot;

Barack Obama does not have a slave ancestry. His family on his father&#039;s side is Kenyan. None of them have spent any time in America. His Irish mother was born in the United States. In effect, Obama is not African-American by birth. He&#039;s really Irish and Kenyan...which, in stupid America translates to being &quot;Black&quot; because his skin pigmentation is similar to that of African-Americans.

It&#039;s no wonder we voted for Bush twice. It&#039;s no wonder this generation allowed for the Twin Towers to be bombed as well as the Pentagon.

As of 10/16/07, based on these posts I&#039;ve seen, we have to be the dumbest country on earth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is why our country is in the mess it&#8217;s in today. The endless list of posters that cannot stomach the idea of Obama and Cheney being related have made it clear as to why America has lost it&#8217;s way and why we are hated around the world. </p>
<p>Here is what America wrote for the rest of the world to see: </p>
<p>1.&#8221;I think she means that Dickâ€™s family used to own Barackâ€™s family.&#8221;<br />
2. &#8220;Did DICK go to a mahdrasa too?&#8221;<br />
3. &#8220;Cheneyâ€™s ancesters are Black? Would have never known.&#8221;<br />
4. &#8220;Soâ€¦ eight generations ago a Cheney master raped an Obama slave and that makes Dick and Barack cousins?!?!?!&#8221;<br />
5. &#8220;So basically sheâ€™s saying that Dick Cheneyâ€™s family were a bunch of rich southern aristocratic types who didnâ€™t want to pay taxes and owned slaves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barack Obama does not have a slave ancestry. His family on his father&#8217;s side is Kenyan. None of them have spent any time in America. His Irish mother was born in the United States. In effect, Obama is not African-American by birth. He&#8217;s really Irish and Kenyan&#8230;which, in stupid America translates to being &#8220;Black&#8221; because his skin pigmentation is similar to that of African-Americans.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s no wonder we voted for Bush twice. It&#8217;s no wonder this generation allowed for the Twin Towers to be bombed as well as the Pentagon.</p>
<p>As of 10/16/07, based on these posts I&#8217;ve seen, we have to be the dumbest country on earth.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121877', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ThinkSmart</title>
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		<dc:creator>ThinkSmart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listen to these idiots:

- by Fan of Man: cheneys part black?
The fool doesn&#039;t know Obama&#039;s mother is white.

- by grover stewarjt: Did DICK go to a mahdrasa too?
Obama didn&#039;t go to a Madrasa. You ignorant goat.

- by Rick O: I think she means that Dickâ€™s family used to own Barackâ€™s family.
When did Americans own Kenyans? Dick&#039;s family owned Obama&#039;s white mother or Obama&#039;s Kenyan father? Or did he own all of them?

Bunch of misfits!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen to these idiots:</p>
<p>- by Fan of Man: cheneys part black?<br />
The fool doesn&#8217;t know Obama&#8217;s mother is white.</p>
<p>- by grover stewarjt: Did DICK go to a mahdrasa too?<br />
Obama didn&#8217;t go to a Madrasa. You ignorant goat.</p>
<p>- by Rick O: I think she means that Dickâ€™s family used to own Barackâ€™s family.<br />
When did Americans own Kenyans? Dick&#8217;s family owned Obama&#8217;s white mother or Obama&#8217;s Kenyan father? Or did he own all of them?</p>
<p>Bunch of misfits!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121859', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Race Condition</title>
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		<dc:creator>Race Condition</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;We ain&#039;t racists!  We done got some BLACK feller as a cuz!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We ain&#8217;t racists!  We done got some BLACK feller as a cuz!&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121851', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jerseyboyblue</title>
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		<dc:creator>jerseyboyblue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and this is relevant how, Mrs. Cheney?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and this is relevant how, Mrs. Cheney?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121822', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Dogfather</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Dogfather</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does this mean Cheney is Sicilian? -- Comment by thisphotocouldbeyourlife â€” October 16, 2007 @ 4:22 pm

HAH!!!  Best one I&#039;ve heard all day!

Remember -- he&#039;s Sicilian because the Moors invaded...

Ah, fuhgedaboudit...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does this mean Cheney is Sicilian? &#8212; Comment by thisphotocouldbeyourlife â€” October 16, 2007 @ 4:22 pm</p>
<p>HAH!!!  Best one I&#8217;ve heard all day!</p>
<p>Remember &#8212; he&#8217;s Sicilian because the Moors invaded&#8230;</p>
<p>Ah, fuhgedaboudit&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121781', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Your Conscience</title>
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		<dc:creator>Your Conscience</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eight generations span, on average 1713-1725 with between 200-250 direct lineage children.  To quantify the likely subsequent mairrages and children you are in the hundreds of thousands.

1713-1725 sounds about right for slavery, eh Dick?

Here is one example of eight generation.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/joyce/jmtanc.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eight generations span, on average 1713-1725 with between 200-250 direct lineage children.  To quantify the likely subsequent mairrages and children you are in the hundreds of thousands.</p>
<p>1713-1725 sounds about right for slavery, eh Dick?</p>
<p>Here is one example of eight generation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/joyce/jmtanc.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/joyce/jmtanc.htm</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4121760', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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