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2011-09-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Thomas Jefferson and field hands not so close after all.

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-03 02:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I read the Joe Ellis book on TJ - "American Sphinx" - he concluded that TJ was most likely the father of at least one of Sally's kids. I think it was based off the DNA test from 1998. Randolph Jefferson is an interesting angle. I admire TJ (& all the Founders for that matter) and even if this is true, doesn't really bother me.

Posted by Broadhead6 2011-09-03 03:01|| 2011-09-03 03:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Honestly, I know it's total Leftist BS, but I always kind of enjoyed Gore Vidal's take on Jefferson from his novel Burr: mulatto children underfoot everywhere, mad science gadgets and weird inventions popping out of the walls...

Posted by Secret Master 2011-09-03 13:19|| 2011-09-03 13:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I still root for the idea of "Blackadder Comes to America", with Blackadder descendents becoming White House fixtures.

For example, whenever Thomas Jefferson enters the room he has his arms around two young, grinning and giggling black girls, but never the same two. The running gag is that they whisper to him and he gets a lewd grin before excusing himself and them.

And George Washington belongs to dozens of secret societies, so is continually using nonsensical code expressions, and greeting about every third person on the street with hand signals. And the walls are full of secret passages, ceremonial robes, and ritual be-bobs.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-03 13:35|| 2011-09-03 13:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Dammit. I seem to be having some sort of randomly occurring negative resonance with the iPad and comments -- somehow I accidentally trolled Broadhead6's comment. *sigh*. Until badanov fixes it, here's what he wrote:

#1  I read the Joe Ellis book on TJ - "American Sphinx" - he concluded that TJ was most likely the father of at least one of Sally's kids. I think it was based off the DNA test from 1998. Randolph Jefferson is an interesting angle. I admire TJ (& all the Founders for that matter) and even if this is true, doesn't really bother me.

Posted by: Broadhead6   2011-09-03

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-03 13:50|| 2011-09-03 13:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The biggest problem with the claim that Thomas Jefferson sired those mulatto children is that the DNA test only indicated a male in the Jefferson line, and the Left conveniently left out his brother and his five nephews from their 'conclusion'.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-03 14:58|| 2011-09-03 14:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, to live for the day the last liberal bed time story is definitively debunked...

Posted by M. Murcek 2011-09-03 15:32|| 2011-09-03 15:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Intehwesting, so now Thomas' bro "RANDY" RANDY did it???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-09-03 22:00|| 2011-09-03 22:00|| Front Page Top

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