Too bad for us they didn't stay there. He'd be trying to destroy the U.K. now instead of the U.S.

This is news WHY???

Do you libs think this is anything for Romney to be ashamed of?

Do you conservatives think this is anything SPECIAL???

This is a non starter for me.

Does it really matter where Mr Romney has relatives? America is the melting pot of the world. It was once a crucible for good. Now I don't recognize it as such. It has been usurped by the greedy who pray to Avarice and turned into the great whore dressed in scarlet robes.

I don't feel that the choices for this presidental cycle will matter much. It's not the president who runs things because he is limited by the house and senate in what he can do.

The Bamacrats want you to lean forward. The Republicans just want you to bend over.

With all of this leaning left and right, the row boat is going to flip and we'll all drown.

So, the real question is, HOW LONG CAN YOU TREAD WATER?

I will try a different tack this year and vote Libertarian straight down the line and see what happens.

@ George Hayduke Sr, well if the President's Father was a "Rolling Stone" in Kenya, how is that the President's fault? The President had his mother and grandmother, and the Sperm Donor played no part in his life. I have a half brother and he and I have no relationship, he is just another one of my Fathers kids. The fact of the matter is this, many men, black, white, etc., father children by different women, and not all the half-siblings have a relationship, period!!

Ain't this something? The media is already digging harder in CANDIDATE Mitt Romneys past / family heritage than they have do for Barack Obama's after 2 years of campaigning, and nearly 4 years of being our President.

It's no wonder Obama is such a mystery to most of us. The press never vetted Obama like they do all of the white male Republicans.

No surprise here. And it's a sly bit of using race to appeal to the fundieProts who might be wary of supporting a Gnostic cultist by emphasizing that Mittsy is so thoroughly white.

What a wonderful warm fuzzy story, almost makes you forget what mitt really believes in, not the stuff he's spinning now since the 47%(his real belief) story came out. Anywho, ol mitt can go to his uk ancestral home, take some neo con supporters with him to meet and greet, and let their vitriol about 'socialists scum' and the other hatred they have toward any one who lives with free health care and retirement. ol mitt will give those socialist euro bums the good ol american what for about socialists.Other than that, the story was a waste of digital space. BTW, when can we expect a nice story about the romney families ties to mexico? Now, that would be interesting to see brought out.

that's it! I want to see a birth certificate! can't have some British commoner in the White House!

Isn't it a Mormon policy to learn who their ancestors were? based on this, isn't it likely the Romney's knew who family was?

My family also came from Lancashire in the 19th century and the information is easily available. Records show this branch of the family date back to the 1500's and they were poor, much more than carpenters were

I mention this only to show even poor families were available.

HIS MISTRESS GREEN*

“Now think, ye rich men all, I pray
Of Goody Blake and Harry Gill!”
—Wordsworth (mostly), from Goody Blake and Harry Gill

You see that man, that billionaire who
Insists he knows the low-class woes?
That man, a more-than-millionaire who
Claims to know how hardship goes?
Do you believe that gold-fed man
—Who goes and poops a golden log,
Who claims that all are in his plan—
Is so empathic? Ask his dog.

This Mitt-head (as of now a Mormon),
Who owns, I bet, a sub/car/plane:
I wonder when he greets his doorman
Does he feel that doorman’s pain?
Oh, yes! I bet he tips him great!:
He puts two tickets in his hand
And says, “My boy, here, bring a date
To see me speak. It will be grand!”

(Remember, he was asked about how
Best his boys had served their home,
And shameless, spineless did he tout how
“They campaigned!… Hey… where’s my comb?”
But don’t you doubt he’d send your son,
Your daughter off to distant lands,
With too few bullets in their gun,
To die in Middle-Eastern sands.)

I say a Mormon now because he
Might disown it like his plan
For social health-care. My God! does he
Own one thought? this sketchy man!
And though this flopper didn’t flip
His message at the ACP,**
Don’t think that he had drunk a sip
Of Kool-Aid made with Limbaugh pee.

He has no master but the dollar,
His one true love, his mistress green;
This dominatrix has his collar:
This biggest sub you’ve ever seen!
So vote for him you mammoth red,***
But don’t complain to me if you
Were led astray by what he said;
He might turn out the reddest blue!

~

*This poem was written using the “Goody Blake”
stanza of William Wordsworth.
**This means, of course, the NAACP, but I could
not find a way to fit in all the letters while maintaining
the meter. Something tells me Wordsworth himself
would have found a way. I am no William Wordsworth.
Hail Wordsworth! One of the greatest Democrats ever!
***Mammoth = GOP elephant

Bud Glory - ArtlessPoems

Give it up already. Romney's relatives were like countless millions who came here for a better life. Finally one succeded.How many did and did not, including his kin.

Just be mindful that if you send your kids to college just pray they are not a success. That's not politically correct today. God forbid they become a 1 percenter. If they do, don't forget -if they get a Pell grant or get any "government" help that I helped them get there. They didn't get the grades themselves, so remember to send me my share of yourchild's supposedly success that they earned.

All this rhetoric is stupid.

LMAO - I knew all the nutz left and right would storm this story....just...LMFAO!

so what is the point msnbc? these are people romney in most probability romney does not even know exist.

it's not like they are romney's brother.

msnbc, why not make a story about the prez long lost brother. you went all the way to look for romney's 4th cousin? why not go find out more about the prez by flying to kenya and speak with the prez bro.?

you people just have to find something on romney. you can't find anything that stinks except a 4th cousin? i don't even know who my second cousins are, let alone 4th.

whoever wrote this worhtless article, are you planning on making romney's family tree? or better yet do you know who your second cousin are? worthless writer you are so full ot it.

Well it might be nice if the author of this one told the whole story; the Romneys were firmly established in the New World by the 1830's when his ancestors converted to the Mormon faith. Mitt's great-great grandfather Parley P. Pratt was a "beloved Apostle" in the early church, an intelligent and skilled orator, no doubt, but he escaped from a Missouri jail after being charged with murder in the shooting death of a state militia member. Pratt was later murdered himself by the estranged husband of a woman he'd taken as his own 12th wife. This followed on the heels of a botched kidnapping of her children who had been sequestered in New Orleans (Pratt was traveling under an alias).

As for the Romney family history in this country, author Judith Freeman offers this bit of mediation. She is the author of the novel Red Water, with uses the backdrop of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to weave its story of one of the participants' "plural wives." Many credible historians believe the massacre occurred in part as an act of vengeance in retaliation for Pratt's killing.

http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=877&fulltext=1&media=

What is the point? A huge proportion of Americans has long lost relatives in just about every country in the world. More fluff from "reputable" news sources.

I was not aware planet "Kolob" had been found. This secretive Mormons and Mitt need to tell us about their galactic cousins and their tax free Swiss and Cayman accounts. No wonder the English are surpised? LOL!

More subtle garbage reporting from MSNBC: "Iveson, a retired factory worker, most of whose children have no jobs." Pathetic!

So to be clear, Romney's great great great grandfather didn't keep up with his family that he left behind in England and that is Romney's fault. Might as well blame Bush too. Stupid liberals.

Bwahaahaahahhahaha! Is this intended to disparage Romney for having lost contact with the British branch of his family tree, with his direct line having left their homeland almost 200 years ago - having been Americans almost as long as we've been America?? And now, turns out the UK branch are not all wealthy and successful - shocking!!! Let's show a little grace here - Mr. Romney, of course, does not know, has never known, nor had any contact with these distant folks who share his heritage in UK.

ALSO, I will jump on board with the president's protectors on this subject too (and I am not a politcal supporter, for oh-so-many reasons) - it is in no way the responsibility of Pres. Obama to support his impoverished brother or close relatives who can't support themselves! It is not the place of another to judge the bonds of another's family. If they're close and one has greater success and chooses to assist another, great; if not, fine. We do not know the private reasons for the president's disassociation with these people - I believe that he just never knew his brother and this group in FL to begin; just like Mr. Romney has never known the folks to whom he has some distant relation over in the UK. Let's show a little grace here (I tried reeaally hard myself, so hope none of this came off catty).

By way of information, the Miles and Elizabeth identified in the baptismal record of this article converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) and immigrated to the United States. They originally settled in Nauvoo, Illinois but later immigrated with the Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake City and then onto St. George, Utah. They became established there helping to build the St. George Tabernacle and Temple. Miles is known for his craftmanship in furniture building and is credited with building the spiral stair case in the St. George Tabernacle. It is indeed beautiful. His pioneer home, which still stands, was said to have had one of his spiral staircases in it connecting the upper and lower floors but was removed when the house was plumbed for a bathroom in the first half of the 20th century. Miles and Elizabeth remained faithful to the religion that brought them to America and are buried in the St. George cemetery. Mitt Romney's pioneer heritage is inspiring. He has a lot to live up to.

So he's a Mexican-Brit? Mind=BLOWN.

That line - "one of the wealthiest people ever to run for the Presidency" is a load of carp! The country was set-up so that the wealthy WERE the ones that run things. They were the land owners! They were the ones that had the most to lose! They also had the "obligation" to take care of the rest as it was their "station" to do so. Ever taken a look at the wealth of Washington, Jefferson, Lee, Carol, etc? Take their worth in money and land and convert that to today's numbers. Romney wouldn't even be able to get in the same room as most of them. The founding fathers owned the majority of the land and wealth in the colonies. They certainly owned a larger share than the guys in there do now. The difference is they EARNED it BEFORE they went in - not from taking kickbacks after they got the government job. They went into public "service" as a duty, not a way to line their pockets. Want to talk about money running for the presidency? Obama is not broke folks! And Kerry was one of the wealthiest people in the country - oh, that was his WIFE'S money wasn't it? Give me a break.

If you are not very rich before you start to run for the office, you are so bought and paid for by the time you get in, you cant get to your car keys because of all of the hands in your pockets. This country needs someone who will run this country like a business, cut the pork projects, and make the lazy get up off their butts and work for their phones!

I do wonder if Mitts English cousins are as full of @!$%# as he is?????

Mitt looks for long lost English cousins to distract from the fact he is Mexican born. Maybe he ought to show some of his closer Mexican family.

How did he come here ? Via Mexico or Canada : - l