barack obama irish heritage

Doe we have an all Gaelic Presidential run-in?

“McCain” is patently Hiberno-Scots; “Clinton” is as Irish as they come, and Hillary seems to be Anglo-Welsh; “US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama can now count himself as one of the millions of Americans with Irish heritage. Research by the genealogy website ancestry.co.uk reveals that Mr Obama’s great great great grandfather was born in Ireland, although it is not yet known where – Falmouth Kearney” source RTE News. (O’B.Armagh, if he wins?)
Re Hillary, that’s why I said “it seems”. Several sources give her family Welsh-English, hence at least part Gaelic, origins. But if Omen in Nomen, she has a strong Irish following.
Re Kenian blood. Going by the “Lucy digs”, we “all” have African blood in us, some more than others.

I guess that *really* makes Obama heir to the Kennedy mantle.

… but it begs the question whether Clinton or McCain have any Kenyan blood in them…

wouldn’t THAT be interesting?

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