well he will not claim any Mexican background , because even though Daddy was born in Mexico his parents were American citizens. So maybe he will claim English heritage now. Do Brits vote or can vote in our elections? Didn't think so. Plus bet they all belong to the labor party.

Hey they never stop doing stories about Obama's family ,over there as you say, or where he was Born , or where the aunt lives, or what his wife wares or his children do. Get a life guy.

Romney has five grandmothers. One of them might be Mexican? His one son that speaks Spanish is definitely of Mexican heritage.

And what is the big deal with English heritage. Isn't that were most of us came from in the 1600/1700s. Of course, there were Frenchmen, Germans, Dutch, Russians and Muslims also. Except for the Blacks and the Native Americans we can all say. Oh, I'm so surprised. We all probably have cousins, how many times removed, in England, etc.

Why so many have to waste their time to put others down.Does it worth their time and silly emotions. its obvious lots of people are unschooled about the diverse society we live in. Get up and go get alife and stop dissing others

There is a pretty good movie about Obama's past. It's called 2016, The Obama Story. Obama's brother from a different mother (or is it brother from a different father?) Frank, is interviewed! When asked if he held any resentment for being abandoned by Barry, Frank shrugged and said being President makes his brother very busy to worry about his relatives in Kenya! (like golfing, vacations, spending $1.4 billion of our money on himself, etc)

Mickey-1983943

No interest here on a birther movement on Romney or anyone else. That is so....how do you say it? Making a fool of ones self.

Bill T from USA

What does it matter ( other than to sell tabloids) what obama or anyone else for that matter do ,feel or how they inter reacted with their families? The Obama 2016 was informative to the uninformed that spent money to see it.

The President cannot help the fact that he was born in the United States, and had Grandparents who loved him. His relatives in Kenya, he NEVER had a relationship with them, nor them with him. Please, give me a break with that nonsense. The President is a man, who didn't have a Father growing up, and I have to say, he turned out pretty well. So screw his long-lost relatives because the President can't help the fact that his fathered spread his seed in Kenya. He can only be a good husband and a good father to his family. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why he values his wife and children so much. It takes someone liked President Obama to understand my story, and the President is a good representation of NOT following in his Sperm Donors footsteps, because he was NEVER a father to him.

Yes...how about interviewing Obammie's uncle and auntie...especially his auntie who is in the New England area, living there illegally, and has refused to comply with deportation orders...
Then...when finding out, Obammie stepped in and personally put a stop to her deportation...abuse of authority...

AND MITTS mexican relatives !!!

Well, Anne, Romney has never known his English relatives. What's your point? Is it somehow bad that Romney doesn't know all of his relatives personally, but it's somehow good that Obama doesn't know all of his relatives personally? Sheesh.

I don't know all of my relatives personally, either. As I've researched my family tree, I can understand why my mother told me to be careful who I dated as a teenager- she said we were related to at least half the county. We had moved into an area where our ancestors had lived for nearly 200 years; we knew many of the living relatives, but not all of them. Daughters marry, and surnames change. As it turns out, I have many more cousins than I had ever imagined. It doesn't mean that I abandoned them.

I'd rather they do a profile on Obama's Aunt in Boston. Who up until recently was living here Illegally, and is living on welfare.

Now THAT is profile I'd like to see done.

What is the purpose of this story? He already has most of the white vote. I thought he was so busy trying to connect to his "mexican heritage" for the spanish vote. He is such a bigot and 2 faced loser. May all his family kiss my red white and blue a$$

Yes and if Mitt does win he can have his relatives ...... mow the lawn at the White House.

Not defending Romney, just saying ... There really are no Mexican relatives. Romney's great-grandparents were polygamists who fled to Mexico when the Federal government started prosecuting polygamy. They lived in Mormon "colonies", spoke only English, and had only minimal contact with the indigenous people. Any Mormon who even talked to a Mexican risked the danger of being ejected from the colony and shunned.

Romney's grandfather was born in Mexico, but married a woman from Utah. They were "soto" polygamists after the "vision" of 1890 abolished polygamy. That is, Romney's grandfather had one "civil" marriage in 1895 in Mexico and multiple "associations" or "sister-wives" that were extremely difficult to track down (odd given the Mormon penchant for geneology.) That is not at all unusual because most of the ranking men in the several Mormon colonies in Mexico were polygamists and the 1890 vision caught them by surprise. The practice was slow to go away and there was a lot of "cooking the books" in order to try to demonstrate marriage to American citizens when all Mormons were expelled from Mexico in 1912.

Georgr Romney (Romney's father) was born in Mexico of one American-born parent (though there is some small doubt of that) and along with his siblings and the rest of the family illegally re-entered the US. They essentially drove across the border at an unmanned checkpoint at night and simply claimed to be American citizens. The Mormons simply had to do it that way because they could not declare multiple marriages to prove citizenship.

The Mormons, including Romney's father and grandparents were eventually incarcerated in what would now be called a concentration camp in El Paso, Texas. They were refused all state aid and at that time most other aid came from religious groups (who did not consider Mormons Christians) and their circumstances were dire. Eventually Congress set up a "bailout" fund to feed them. They were viewed with distrust by both Anglo and Latino people in Texas and eventually most moved away as the Mormon Church in Utah assisted them. (George Romney's life-long nickname was "Mex.")

The Mormons pretty have it both ways wiuth this story. They claim that Romneys parents and grandparents were monogamous, but also claim multiple "baptisms" of wives for Romney's grandfather. Considering that the Mexican Mormon colonies were founded by polygamists and that people remained there because they either favored polygamy or were, as a minimum, not offended by it, it is very likely that Romney did indeed have six (five parents of his father and one of his mother) grandparents. However, the lack of records when George Romney and his parents illegally re-entered the US and the wierd geneology of the Mormon Church have made it almost impossible to prove.

This was very heavily discussed when George Romney ran for President himself as a LIBERAL Republican. There was considerable discussion that he was not eligible to run because he was not "natural born." His supporters pointed to a 1937 law that supposedly conferred retroactive citizenship. But Romney dropped his "Great in '68" campaign before the issue was resolved. Most people at the time thought he was eligible.

Hope that helps. Romney is very reticent to discuss his Mormon roots or his religion. He is the only candidate to seek a federal court injunction to prevent reporters (particularly MTV) from asking about "any clothing not normally visible as "street clothes."" (The case was tossed out as a classic example of prior restraint.)

Good answer and very accurate info Chris. I was born and raised Mormon and only recently stopped attending meetings (still a member of record as far as I know). Too bad more people don't really know or seemingly care to know what it is that the church believes and teaches so they can know who they are really voting for.

Funny Chris, my mother was born in the Mormon Colonies in 1914 and she did not come to America until she was 14. My Grandfather was not a polygamist. Concentration camp in El Paso, what the hell are you talking about. The ONLY thing you got correct is the fact that Romney is not Hispanic!

I hate politics, and am not a fan of either candidate, but is it interesting that all the posts on here (mainly form the left) are pointing out faults in Romney that very easily apply to their candidate also. Romney has poor relatives in England and Obama has poor relatives in Kenya. The mormon faith has a history of violence and misguided beliefs while Obama's muslim faith (just admit it) has a recent history of violence and misguided beliefs. I sure am glad Jehovah God appoints rulers for his purposes. God bless America and forgive us for our screwed up ways.

@Fedup,

By 1914 the Mexican Revolution had settled down in northern Mexico. Pancho Villa was still a force, but he was more interested in challenging the Federales instead of the Mormons and was in prison when the actual 1912 exodus took place. In fact, when Pershing led US troops into Mexico, one of the stated reasons was to protect the American citizens in the Mormon colonias.

The really odd thing about polygamy is that a calculator will tell you that for every additional wife in a Mormon community, that meant that one male was left without prospects. Only high-status Mormons practiced polygamy. Low status Mormons practiced masturbation. Romney's grandparents were high status because one of his grandmothers was a descendent of Parley Pratt. Your calculator would tell you that most Mormons in Mexico (who originally fled there to avoid prosecution for polygamy) did not practice polygamy. Marriage was reserved for the high-status Mormons only. So the bottom line is that for Mormons there were far more believers in polygamy than practitioners of polygamy.

Polygamy is still practiced in the LDS church far more than people realize. While there are LDS sects that practice it openly, many more people continue to practice "soto" (soft) polygamy and it is viurtually impossible to prosecute. Modern Mormons who practice polygamy marry only one wife legally and any "sister wives" are either consecrated openly in the case of polygamous sects, or more often with an extra-church exchange of marriage vows. Even this is difficult to track because Mormons routinely "correct" vital records (birth, death, marriage, baptism) to link people to the Mormon church and especially to link women to men so they can get a good seat in heaven. That's how millions of names of people who lived before Mormonism was even invented got to be "Mormons." For example, all the signers of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution have been "baptised" as Mormons along with millions of others. I was dismayed to find that my father (who died in 1960) is listed as a Mormon in their database. I douibt that he had even heard of the LDS church.

The term "concentration camp" was my own. It was actually an abandoned lumberyard with a railroad siding. It was surroun ded by high board fences and barbed wire. It was called "The Lumber Yard." Mormon refugees were taken directly from trains to the refugee camp. They were only allowed into El Paso under armed guard, supposedly for their own protection. They were encouraged to leave the state and most did. (El Paso still has one of the largest Mormon communities in the state with many tracing their ancestry directly back to the Lumber Yard.) The Mormons mostly fled with only the clothes on their back.

But the refugees in the Lumber Yard had problems. The state of Texas refused to give them any aid and the churches shunned them as "non-Christian." Many had no documentation to prove US citizenship because of the tangles of polygamy and the LDS Church's strange geneology. They were literally starving to death. Congress stepped in and set up a $100,000 fund (a huge sum of money at that time) to feed them. So it looks like the Romney started their life in this country at the public teat.

Here is a picture of Mormons at The Lumber Yard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3738805579/in/photostream/

The City of El Paso actually had a major museum show back in July that was about the Mormon exodus from Mexico and their maltreatment at the hands of Texans. Here is a link to a University of Texas at El Paso site that was created for the centennial of the Lunber Yard:http://www.research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=69697

Maybe one of the reasons you are "fed up" is that you don't take the time to read or research.

Who cares for long lost relatives? Why then did they make such a production over the fact that Obama is "Supposedly" related to the first black slave in this country?

Most of us have long lost relatives we've never met. Like Mr. Romney, I have long lost relatives in England I have never met and probably never will.

Carol, are you whining this beautiful morning? Or are you trying to convince yourself who you take after?

slightlymoldy, go bully someone else.. or get a life (or better yet get a job!)!

Can't wait to see Romney/Ryan help you with that, so you can stop living off the obama handouts! hehehe!

ah, a tolerant liberal.

In fairness to those early converts, I think they saw Joseph smith's pitch as an improvement in this life and certainly in the afterlife. Neither the C of E nor any evangelical sects gave any hope of continuing to live closeness with relatives after death. The dead are supposed to focus on God . The idea of chatting with Granma or your numerous dead children is comforting, but that cosy picture is touted in pop culture, not the orthodox faiths.

Take a look at Samuel Morris Brown's recent book In Heaven As It Is On Earth" Joseph Smith And the Early Mormon Conquest of Death. Brown doesn't ignore smith's shady activities but is sympathetic to his desire to construct a theology that offered more comfort than anything current in his time and place. The desire to assure continuing family structures though Eternity were the result of smith's brother's death, which affected him profoundly, according to Brown.

I don't have any patience with the LDS but understand the attraction of this part of the theology.

newsgirl24,

"he wants to make sure voters know he's REALLY English, and oh by the way"

Romney wants everyone to know he is a good old WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant), those upper-crust people who have always run this country, up until now, that is.

nothingnewsworthygirl, what a waste of cyberspace this comment is.

Good to see others identify this as a Race gambit.

If this story were a race gambit Romney would push the fact that he has quasi-Mexican roots. It would yield far bigger numbers that would come at Obama's expense. The author is simply a person who likes genealogy and thought it would make an interesting story. And it is.

my thoughts too. Idiot. Anybody with 2 eyes can see whats he is trying to do. Cloud everyone.

No the Repubs hate more. Hate is al that is spewed from the mouths of Repubs. Take a gander at Facebook. Christians Against Obama hateful stuff and that is from "supposed Christians"

Please... if a truth is said about Obama you call it hate!

Unfortunately, TanMan, that's all the liberals know to do. When they're not winning an argument, they immediately resort to name-calling. "You're stupid", "you're racist", "you hate women", "you're a homophobe"; all of these second-grader-style retorts spewing from the lips of liberals is their usual line of defense. They just can't handle hearing a truth that doesn't suit them.

Hmm..Coming from a nonpartisan voter, it seems that Republicans are the main ones spewing out all the name-calling (hence names like Obummer, Obidiot, etc.). The fact is that both Republicans and Democrats resort to these elementary-style attacks, which definitely is very ignorant, but Republicans seem to dish it out much more. Notice that whenever a post negatively attacks Romney or positively depicts Obama, Republicans always feel the need to tell liberals to "go collect their welfare checks". Seems to me like Republicans are the primary bad-talkers when the story does not look good for their party. But maybe that is just me...

Thank you...not sure why this is getting everyone's panties in a wad this Monday morning.

My Grandfather (mother's father) moved here from Mexico City in like 1910 and my other Grandparent's father's father) both migrated to this country from separate parts of Scotland.

People seem to think that a person's family tree is linear...and in some cases I guess, that may be true, but most people have divergent family histories.

That's what I was going to say. Let's see your birth certificate Mitt. Were you even born here?

Forestwoman12 angry fox groupie!! lololololol McCain and Palin has a better chance of winning then Mittens lolololol Good Luck in 2016 lololol

Terry, another desperate comment trying to distract from the election. Why not drag up every politicians tax records and waste time/money. What a joke. Romney is rich, get over it.

I'd like to see one law review written by his majesty while in charge of the the most prestigeous law journal in the country.

In fact. I'd like to see ANY worthwhile accomplishment of his majesty before running for office (For that matter, any worthwhile accomplishment since getting elected)

bker, another arse with a loaded keyboard...

I'd really like to see Obama's college transcripts/records - to prove the fact that he was a lousy student and given a free pass by the extremely liberal Harvard administration!

Hey libbies, do yourself a favor and google FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, Obama's mentor and the closest thing to a father he ever had!

Actually, it's very possible that Davis is Obama's biological father. He was having an affair with Obama's mother when she was 17. Obama was born when his mother was 18.

Now, if Davis is Obama's father, that would grant him natural-born US citizen status- but seeing as how Davis was Obama's mentor, and seeing as how Davis was an avowed Communist, what does this tell us about Obama's agenda? Interesting.

Oh, and BKER......don't hold your breath waiting to hear about Obama's "worthwhile accomplishments". You will hear only lies.

The fact that Romney has a handful of distant living relatives in England makes you hate him more? How about Obama's not-so-distant relatives living in poverty in Africa? What about Obama's not-so-distant relatives living on the government teat here in the US?

MSNBC is just trying to avoid the real news!

I would be more interested in a story on Obama's roots, but believe me, we won't see that from NBC! They go out of the way to keep that story hidden. I would like to see Obama's brother's hut and his aunt's place. You know the aunt that is here illegally! Of course Romney's English relatives can't vote, but I bet Obama's illegal relatives can!

I would be more interested in a story on Obama's roots, but believe me, we won't see that from NBC! They go out of the way to keep that story hidden. I would like to see Obama's brother's hut and his aunt's place. You know the aunt that is here illegally! Of course Romney's English relatives can't vote, but I bet Obama's illegal relatives can!