The first president to enter the White House with a literate and introspective memoir behind him, Obama is his own book of firsts. He is NOT the first president with a foreign parent.
Andrew Jackson was the son of two Irish immigrants. James Buchanan and Chester Alan Arthur both had Irish fathers. In addition, Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson had English mothers, and Herbert Hoover's mother was born in Canada. As you can see, even with Obama, we have yet to have a President with a foreign-born parent who *wasn't* a *British subject*, since those Irish, English, and Canadian presidential parents were all born subjects of the Crown, and so was Barack Obama, Sr. of Nayang'oma Kogela, Nyanza Province, Kenya. He is the first president to grow up in Hawaii, the 50th state. He is the first president whose parents earned advanced degrees. He is the first president who once could speak the Indonesian language. He is the first president who was president of the Harvard Law Review. He is the first president who was a hapa, as they are called in Hawaii, with parents of different races. He is the first president who has a sister from Asia and a sister from Africa and a wife from the black working-class South Side of Chicago. And he is the first African-American president, yet one with no slaves but a few slaveholders in his ancestry. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/WebTV-Pals -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
