Thu, March 15, 2007

Just when you think the campaigning for the '08 presidential election has started way too soon, you realize it actually started a couple hundred years ago.

Apparently, genealogists are the new swift boat vets, because there are stories swimming around about Obama's great-great-great-grandparents and Romney's great-great-great-grandparents as if this has any bearing on a) the personalities or ideologies of the candidates; or b) anything else. It reminds me of the Scott Adams post Your Ancestors Disgust Me, which is on another topic but makes the same point.

Go back far enough and every candidate's ancestor is a slimy eel-fish with legs. And we can all agree that guy was an asshole. If you're going to pick apart our early-bird presidential front-runners, do the decent thing and start with some dumb thing they did in college.

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