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500_Apples
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posted 20 March 2008 08:49 AM      Profile for 500_Apples   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This is interesting.
http://www.slate.com/id/2186944/
Obama on Racism, 1990
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from: Bonnie Goldstein
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at 12:46 PM ET

It is further evidence that he is a man of deep thought.


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posted 20 March 2008 09:06 AM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Got any interviews with the youthful Condie Rice on how she wishes all African American women were as successful as she?

Honestly.


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remind
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posted 28 March 2008 06:13 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Not wanting to start a new thread with these tidbits, so am posting it in this unused thread. Apparently it was revealed yesterday that Obama and Brad Pitt are distant cousins and that he is also related to the current President.

The article also states more historical family connections of the others in the Presidential race.

quote:
The presidential candidates may have star qualities -- and they also have stars in their families, according to a genealogical study linking Hillary Clinton to Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama to Brad Pitt.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston on Wednesday released a study in which it traced the family trees of all three presidential candidates to find they all had famous relatives, both dead and alive.

It found Illinois Senator Barack Obama, whose mother is from Kansas, can claim at least six U.S. presidents as distant cousins, including George W. Bush and his father, Gerald R. Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman, and James Madison.

But other cousins include British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill -- and Brad Pitt who is a ninth cousin linked back Edwin Hickman who died in Virginia in 1769.


http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSSP11129220080326


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posted 28 March 2008 09:42 AM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
How does this fit in to 9/11?
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remind
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posted 28 March 2008 09:46 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Doesn't, how does 911 or what you wrote above fit in the thread either?
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