THE DAILY BLADE: Obama’s Kin Disown Him (Politically)
Ancestry.com found 28 living relatives of President Barack Hussein Obama who share a common Irish ancestor on his mother’s side of the family. Now, most of us would be mighty proud that one of our kin made it all the way to the White House. But The Associated Press apparently could not find a blood relation who voted for Obama:
Among Obama’s newly identified relatives is 83-year-old Dorma Lee Reese, of Tucson, Ariz.
“I’m not a Democrat, so I can’t say I clapped,” said Reese, a retired brain-imaging technologist. “I don’t appreciate what he’s done by any means, but I do appreciate that he holds that office.” …
Other distant Obama relatives include Roma Joy Palmer, 66, of Mulvane, Kan., who is retired from the insurance business, and Dean Dillard, 63, a Vietnam War veteran and retired community college professor who lives in Chanute, Kan.
“I really don’t like to claim a relationship to Obama. He is not my favorite president,” said Palmer, a Republican. “I don’t have anything against him personally. But I don’t think we have the same agenda.”
Dillard, though, said he took pride in his family “being related to a president of the United States,” even though he is a registered Republican, did not vote for Obama and opposes his politics.
Leaving aside the black sheep in Obama’s family – to wit, Libyan strongman Muammar al-Gaddafi, who considers the president to be a “son,” and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, who considers the president to be a “brother” - if your own kinfolk won’t support you, what chance do you have with unrelated folks who are too commitment phobic to join one political party or the other?
Same Thing, Only Different: Part IV
Life Derailed By an Alien Who Likes to Party
- Patch.com, March 18, 2011
Obama Parties with Fat Cat Donors While World Burns
- Fox Nation, March 16, 2011
[Hat Tip: OpinionJournal]
The Stiletto Scoops Rudy Giuliani
He doesn’t just start many of his sentences in the first person or self-referentially, but repeats the “me, myself and I” two or three times. It’s either an odd verbal tic or he is even more conceited than anyone thought. Here are his answers to Tom Brokaw’s questions on the July 27, 2008 edition of “Meet The Press”:
Obama: Well, I, I, I didn't see a huge shift in the strategic policies that I've laid out …
Obama: [W]e were going to have a civil war and we could not stop a civil war simply with more troops. Now, I, I ...
Obama: I'm, I'm - the fact that - the...
- "Me, Myself And I-I-I," The Stiletto Blog, August 1, 2008
When France proposed instituting a no-fly zone, "Our president, the leader of the free world, said, 'A what? That's hard! A no fly zone is r-r-r-really hard!' " Giuliani said to laughter.
- Rudy Giuliani as quoted by The Associated Press, March 18, 2011
[Hat Tip: Mediaite]
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