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WHY OBAMA MAY NOT BE AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
WONKETTE - The vast majority of Americans have long forgotten Warren G.
Harding, our 29th president. This is a damn shame, as he was clearly one
of the greatest chief executives this nation has ever seen. He won
election in 1920 by the largest popular vote margin in history, despite
basing his campaign on the totally made-up word "normalcy." He then
proceeded keep two mistresses in the White House and allow his cabinet
members to personally profit from selling off mineral rights to national
parks; before the scandals could really catch up with him, he did the
honorable thing and dropped dead of a heart attack. But did you know
that he was also black? Maybe?
Seems that around their hometown of Blooming Grove, Ohio, the Hardings
were considered poor white trash of dubious racial background, and when
young Warren proposed marriage to his future much-suffering wife, her
father was outraged, believing him to have African blood. Later, William
Estabrook Chancellor, a Wooster professor and racial purity obsessive,
hounded Harding throughout his political career with a series of
pamphlets and publications claiming that Harding's great-grandmother was
black. Even Harding was ambivalent, once saying to a friend, "How do I
know, Jim? One of my ancestors may have jumped the fence."
http://wonkette.com/politics/passing-strange-dept'/surprise--
americas-first-black-president-is-a-dead-republican-287031.php
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WHY OBAMA MAY NOT BE AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
WONKETTE - The vast majority of Americans have long forgotten Warren G.
Harding, our 29th president. This is a damn shame, as he was clearly one
of the greatest chief executives this nation has ever seen. He won
election in 1920 by the largest popular vote margin in history, despite
basing his campaign on the totally made-up word "normalcy." He then
proceeded keep two mistresses in the White House and allow his cabinet
members to personally profit from selling off mineral rights to national
parks; before the scandals could really catch up with him, he did the
honorable thing and dropped dead of a heart attack. But did you know
that he was also black? Maybe?
Seems that around their hometown of Blooming Grove, Ohio, the Hardings
were considered poor white trash of dubious racial background, and when
young Warren proposed marriage to his future much-suffering wife, her
father was outraged, believing him to have African blood. Later, William
Estabrook Chancellor, a Wooster professor and racial purity obsessive,
hounded Harding throughout his political career with a series of
pamphlets and publications claiming that Harding's great-grandmother was
black. Even Harding was ambivalent, once saying to a friend, "How do I
know, Jim? One of my ancestors may have jumped the fence."
http://wonkette.com/politics/passing-strange-dept'/surprise--
americas-first-black-president-is-a-dead-republican-287031.php
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