Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, set to nominate her husband President Barack Obama for a second term. Stirring, emotional yet tacked by details of her own life and her husband’s… Read More ›
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An Immigrant Ancestry Hillary Clinton Shares with Ann Romney
This article is the latest in a series examining the unknown ancestries of First Ladies including Michelle Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Florence Harding, Eleanor Roosevelt and forthcoming ones on Edith Wilson, Pat Nixon, Eliza Johnson and Mamie Eisenhower. They can be… Read More ›
When Ann Romney & Michelle Obama Sat Down To Talk
Anti-Obama and anti-Romney voters won’t like it but the truth is that Ann Romney and Michelle Obama quite naturally and spontaneously found they shared more of the same views and opinions than they didn’t. At least that was the case… Read More ›
The Caricature-Building Comments of Ann Romney & Michelle Obama in Context
Reaction to the comment made last week by Ann Romney about what she meant by using the words “you people,” are much like the reaction four years ago to the one made by Michelle Obama about feeling “proud for the first… Read More ›
Michelle Obama’s Slave Ancestry & Presidential Identity Politics
The recent news, emerging from the new book American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, by New York Times reporter Rachel L. Swarns, finally provides in a detailed history how the First Lady‘s… Read More ›
Two Legitimate First-Generation Presidential Candidates For the First Time in History: Obama & Romney
They’re both long gone but the fathers of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have unwittingly created an unprecedented aspect to the 2012 presidential election. For the first time in American History, both major party candidates are legitimate first-generation Americans. Unlike… Read More ›
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