"Records unearthed in Ireland reveal that Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama can trace his ancestry back to a shoemaker in a small Irish village, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Obama's campaign had no comment Thursday about the report, but Chicago Alderman Ed Burke told the newspaper he wasn't surprised.
"I could tell from the very first time I saw him — he's got such a way with words," Burke said.
A Church of Ireland rector scoured files from the church dating to the late 1700s, and confirmed that Obama descended from Moneygall, County Offaly, the newspaper reported. The village today holds little more than a couple of pubs, shops and a Roman Catholic church.
Canon Stephen Neill, from a nearby town, began delving into Obama's past after a U.S. genealogist told him about the possible connection, the newspaper reported."
I've yet to hear the man string together two words above and beyond the loquaciousness of what a serious enough 5th grader could muster, but this is what passes for "a way with words" when speaking of someone who prefers to be thought of as black in today's.. ain't got-it-can't-get-it... society of staggering hobo's. Were I Irish, it would not please me to learn I shared genes with so complete a dolt.
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