Left takes off with Romney quote "My family owned slaves"

[Forever_frost]

http://twitchy.com/2012/09/09/left-falls-for-fake-romney-quote-i-can-relate-to-black-people-my-ancestors-once-owned-slaves/

Idiots. Basically it's a political satire site that posted it, made it up. And the left took off with the quote

[HOOCBB]

Sounds a lot like when Sarah Palin "said" she could see Russia from her house. No one remembers that it was actually Tina Fey in a SNL skit.

[Zfan]

Got to love the morally challenged left wingers!

[jyro]

so did Moochel's

Her great great great grandfather was a slave owner.

The bloodlines of Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Tribble extend back to a 200-acre farm that was not far from here. One of their common ancestors was Henry Wells Shields, Mrs. Tribble’s great-great-grandfather. He was a farmer and a family man who grew cotton, Indian corn and sweet potatoes. He owned Mrs. Obama’s maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, who was about 8 years old when she arrived on his farm sometime around 1852.

The DNA tests and research indicate that one of his sons, Charles Marion Shields, is the likely father of Melvinia’s son Dolphus, who was born around 1860. Dolphus T. Shields was the first lady’s maternal great-great-grandfather. His identity and that of his mother, Melvinia, were first reported in an article in The New York Times in 2009, which also indicated that he must have had a white father.

Melvinia was a teenager, perhaps around 15, when she gave birth to her biracial son. Charles was about 20.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/us...pagewanted=all