All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king: Leadership is genetic: Agree?

Sure, why not. As for the idea of genetic testing, that is impossible. However, what strikes me as interesting is this very industrious young student went through all this hard work to learn something no one else apparently knew, also discovers she is an 18th cousin of the current President, himself (Obama), and yet he can't take the time to personally applaud the initiative and dedication it took her to complete the task at the young age of 12, and has his office send her a Form Letter? Buy the kid a plane ticket to Washington to shake her hand personally, and spend less on your wife's extravagant vacations, ODumbAss. It's Shameful, but then again, what do you expect - families of Navy SEALs Team Six members who died for their country only got form letters, too. This man doesn't care about Middle Class Americans (the bulk of which our great young soldiers came from), nor does he care about the rest of the nation. He cares about himself and getting re-elected. Sorry for the obscene language I am about to use, but p*ss on him - say no in November.

Just watch as people will turn this into an anti-obama ad...

in 4 years, it'll crop up again against whoever is in power then. and 4 years after that, and after that, and after that...

Now "why on Earth" would we do that? It isn't 4, 8, or 12 years from now - it's right now, and he's not doing a good job. Add to this, the little girl deserves a lot more than a form letter for what she discovered. Guess what Obama got that peace prize for? Nada, which is a lot less.

Yeup. Political.

Thank you for playing.

:-D

Glad I could oblige ;-)

Without modern DNA testing I cannot see how this can be proven beyond the shadow of doubt. Record keeping before the latter half of the 19th century was not always reliable. I think we should put Henry Louis Gates Jr. on this theory.

I never would have guessed that it was Van Buren as the odd man out.

That means absolutely nothing. A hell of a lot of people are related to Royalty and don't know it. I've traced my ancestry back to English, French, Germany, and a stack of other Royal Houses. If your looking for leadership skills than maybe stick to one or two generations that have direct influence on the individual not someone that lived a thousand years ago.

you can't choose your relatives, it's the luck of the draw

it may seem genetic because the only way to get in now a days is to have the right daddy,.......

Odumba???? what a Kenian king????

Who said that all our Presidents were leaders? Some were anything BUT. Jimmy Carter and obama are a good example.



Screw the English lineage anyway. Sir William Wallace "Brave Heart"
was my 21st Great Uncle. "FREEDOM"

That's nice Emperor Charlemagne is my 36th Great Grandfather

Scientifically everybody comes from 2 people, but not directly English.

However true leaders aren't always the ones in power - in-fact many times true leaders never wanted to have power and have no desire for it.

Real leaders come from people with ideas and the means to present those ideas that benefit everybody.

Leadership in theory is genetic only through birth, not because everybody who is a leader has the qualities to lead - nor should they all lead.

leadership can be learned....

...but ambition may be genetic.

I doubt it -

If you go back far enough we are all descended from two people Adam and Eve, and later from eight people, Noah and his family.

Incest FTW!

Without it you wouldn't be here.

Yup!

Though if it worked out to be like that is up for debate.

Logically, no.

Cross-breeding of species creates no breed-able offspring.

The real Question is, If Evolution is how we got here, how did it happen that two of the same species appeared to begin the process?

Speciation. I'm not sure on what type of speciation was used for humans, but if a group of individuals were somehow, for example, separated from the rest of the population (as in allopatric separation), their isolation in the group can influence the expression of different genes and such new species can arise.

Inbreeding, then?

Oh so much. But you have to remember other factors such as genetic drift and gene flow which causes preference for certain individuals. Plus there are mutations that one should foresee (but unable to do anything about).

Hey that's deep. Something to think about.

Leadership qualifications handed down to descendants do not insure good leadership in the ensuing generation. Any more than a war ace would produce a line of good pilots.

Is it illogical to reach the conclusion, that the presidents of this country can trace their roots back to that of an English king?. Is it also criminal for an Italian prime minister to be descended from Leonardo Da Vinci? Wrong for a Chines :Prime Minister to be descended from Lao Tsu?

The president in office now can't trace his roots back to an English King .

Good to be on the side that wins every now and then...boy, I know I'm gonna get killed for that one!

In this post millennium world of universal 'diversity', or the striving for thereof it's a crime to be white and like it. Or to be of the race that have served our country's highest office. Can't have that.

The politically correct bent is to water down the races to the point where everyone is one sort of tan or apartment beige color. Neither hot nor cold, but tepid in nature and endeavor.

This is really a closet eye opener, Art. Good question.

I don't believe that leadership ability is genetic, but the links do offer another piece of circumstantial evidence to the idea that the world is controlled by a shadow elite of certain bloodlines. It's interesting if nothing else.

It's what THEY want us to adhere to. Go back to when Kingship was lowered from heaven, as per the Sumerian's!

No news here. It's been known from the beginning that the US "ruling class", for lack of a better term, is directly grounded on a small collection of English, German, and Dutch royal families.

That's not automatically a good thing and is actually kind of scary.

We are all of us cousins. What's wrong with that?

What the heck are you babbling about?

edit for typo

We are all related to each other.

Mathematically speaking it is possible to show (even without Adam and Eve) that most people in the world share some common ancestry.

Show me what equation you would use to prove that.

Now you have got me on the hop, it would probably be an arithmetic progression equation...