Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 577 Editor's Choice: 5
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Obama and McCain descended from Scottish royalty!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the news that should bring just a little laughter to your Presidential campaign which now seems to be running off the rails, with race and gender blowing a gasket. According to an article in "The Sunday Times" (London, England) on l3th January, "New research by one of America's leading genealogists has revealed that they (Obama and McCain) share a bloodline back to William I of Scotland. Research last year also showed that Obama had Irish roots, with one of his eight maternal great-great-great grandfathers hailing from Moneygall, Offaly. Obama has Scottish roots and is a descendant of the monarch who ruled Scotland from ll65 to l2l4. Now a separate study into McCain's ancestry has found that the 7l-year old Arizona senator has the same royal lineage......" The writer of this article is named as Stuart MacDonald and the genealogist is Gary Boyd Roberts, senior research scholar at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. For your further delectation, I also offer you this nugget:"About l50m Americans can claim Scots or Irish heritage but royal ancestry is not common". This should put the cat among the pigeons: Obama, Cheney and McCain all related while Americans beat themselves up about race and gender. The only certainty we have is that a woman gave birth to each and every one of us. Why aren't you concentrating on the slump in your economy, the precarious state of your banking system and asking yourselves which candidate can best represent America's interests instead of indulging in all this flummery? Europeans know that the most powerful economy in the not-too-distant future will be that of China, which is the most densely populated place on earth and where the family structure is such that parents are willing to make huge sacrifices so that their children can get the best possible education. In regard to the environment and human rights, the Chinese government is sadly lacking but they sure have their eye on the ball. India is also surging ahead and good luck to them. Meanwhile in the USA people are losing their tempers about who said what, said the acceptable/unacceptable thing about MLK and JFK. You have a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay and it doesn't seem to bother you, the plight of the people in Darfur (Africa) doesn't seem to warrant the same amount of attention that it does over here and you are still fulminating about race and gender. It seems not only hypocritical but also narcissistic. The only thing I admire about America just now is that you still have the right to free speech and freedom of expression, probably in excess to what is available anywhere else in the world. Of course, that can be exploited in an unscrupulous way when your media seems to be free to slander, libel, mock anyone that some person with a poxy degree in journalism dislikes, for personal and other reasons.
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Has anyone seen Elvis recently?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Not waving but drowning" just about sums up what is happening to the Democrats at this early stage of the campaign. MLK, JFK but no sign of Elvis ("The King") leaves me so disappointed. Oh, I must remember to include gender. Marilyn was certainly an icon so why is she being neglected?