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By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyAmerica is a country, thankfully, that loves sex and political power. Think it's a modern phenomenon? Hardly. The country's Founding Fathers pioneered it. Take an event that happened during this month more than 200 years ago. On Sept. 1, 1802, the "Richmond Recorder" published a piece about Thomas Jefferson and his mistress, a slave simply known as "Sally." At the time, Jefferson was temporarily retired from politics and was spending a great amount of time on his Virginia plantation, Monticello. But he had collected an army of enemies, and they knew Jefferson liked to indulge in hanky ...
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By Sally Denton - Politics DailyThe much-ballyhooed front page New York Times story about the First Lady's slave roots played down the most fascinating aspect of the story: The "unknown white man" who fathered Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother. "Out of all Michelle's roots, it's Melvinia who is screaming to be found," a genealogist working with the Times said of the illiterate slave girl who was impregnated and gave birth to Mrs. Obama's mulatto great-great grandfather at the age of fifteen. ...
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