The corporate-owned mainstream media would have us believe that Obama’s ascension to power is an “All-American” story attainable by any hard-working “common” American.
According to Rosemary E. Bachelor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and genealogical publisher, Obama’s is related to “at least eight American presidents (sharing) common ancestors, (with) 1. James Madison, 2. Woodrow Wilson, 3. Harry Truman, 4) Gerald Ford, 5. Lyndon Johnson, 6. Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr., 8. George Bush Jr.
Now we find out that the Democratic president and recently elected Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown are 10th cousins, genealogists said on Friday.The New England Historic Genealogical Society said Mr Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Mr Brown’s mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Massachusetts.He died in 1687 at, for the time, the unusually old age of 102.
What percentages of “common”American family trees have such ancestral pedigree? Nevertheless, did Americans really have a “real choice” between Obama and McCain in casting their votes for a candidate that would bring about “change we can believe” in? Or did the elites contrive another election predicated upon the Hegelian dialectic where the result would be the same regardless for whom we cast our votes?
