Daily Kos: McCain's Roots in American Slavery - Update: Obama's Ancestors Were Slaveholders

Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:47:03 pm PDT

The Daily Kos Kids show their class once again: Daily Kos: John McCain’s Roots in American Slavery.

There is no smear too low for them.

UPDATE at 6/6/08 7:52:22 pm:

And by the way: Obama’s slave-owning forebears revealed.

THE maternal ancestors of Barack Obama, the Democrat who hopes to become America’s first black president, once owned slaves, genealogists have revealed.

As the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, the background of Obama, who went to a school in Indonesia, was already considered exotic.

According to the genealogists, George Washington Overall, Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfather, owned two slaves, a 15-year-old girl and 25-year-old man, who were listed in the 1850 Kentucky census. Another maternal ancestor owned two older slaves.

(Hat tip: Killgore.)