Here is another law professor, Professor Glenn Reynolds, who is claiming 2/32nd Native American Blood (1/16th):
BLUE RACISM: Antiquated law banned Native Americans from Boston until 2005. Luckily, Mitt Romney signed a repeal when he was governor, saving Elizabeth Warren from potential prosecution. I’ll bet she never even thanked him. . . .Mumbles was the one who called for the law's repeal. Good on him.
And, I still want to know how the lawyers (Brown, Warren, DeFranco) stand on Keynes vs Hayek. Pick the wrong one and it will take a decade to turn the economy around. That is a nuts and bolts working man and working woman issue, I would think.
Regards — Cliff
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The 1/32 thing only works if that particular ancestor was 100% Native American. If not, the percentage is even more diluted. O.C. Sarah Smith was her mother's mother's mother's mother's mother.
The latest bizarre twist is the move from "I had no idea" and the famous "I don't recall" to "I did it to connect with people like me." Never mind the issue of fractions and percentages, or whether any advantages accrued -- I think the 180-degree turn on the directory listing thing smells funny.
Yes, I'll concede this has nothing to do with taxes, jobs, or even voter ID requirements, but I do think we elect "the whole person" which is the sum of a person's actions and statements. No one is expecting perfection -- it's not whether someone slurps their soup, farts in bed, or leaves an empty Coke can in someone's car. But when someone is being disingenuous, it doesn't sit well with people.
Sadly, I think that we DO demand perfection in our candidates, particularly if they are opposed to the one we champion. We are able to overlook the log when we focus on splinters in the other ones.
"Yes" we do nominate and elect the "whole" person.....but quite often what we get is not necessarily what was packaged for us. One of the great stains on the Obama election and past three years is the abject black hole that is any meaningful knowledge about his past. Questions have been asked...and no answers have been forthcoming....and the suspicion grows.
Warren is gathering fog around her by these sorts of issues.....and people will become hesitant by asking themselves..."Who IS she....really?"
Admittedly, a sensation-addicted media can really screw up a candidates campaign and eventual success by leaping on some little issue and exploding it into a 5 day, above the fold, 6 PM news item.....and when that happens.....
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