WASHINGTON - A family history website says President Barack Obama has 28 living relatives who descended from an Irishman who fled the potato famine -- including a displeased Arizona Republican.
The Democratic president's newly identified relatives are revealed in a study released to The Associated Press by Ancestry.com , whose genealogists traced descendants of the Irish passengers on the ship that brought Falmouth Kearney to the United States in 1850.
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The countries first black Irish president???
Do you think we can talk the Irish into taking him back? I would be willing to help pay for the plane ticket.
Here's a hoot-- I heard that his lineage qualifies him for membership in the Sons Of The American Revolution-- he had an ancestor that fought in the revolution.
Still doesn't make him an American citizen, does it??? Northern Ireland or Southern Ireland?? I'll chip in on that plane ticket.
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