Hillary in Bosnia: lone gunman?

[MADem]

136. Anything is possible.

It's enormously unlikely, though. If she didn't do it, someone in her line did, I'll wager.

A quiet DNA test would have been the way to present a fait accompli and get out of a nasty, ugly situation that almost cost her the Senate race. Let me repeat that--that almost cost her the Senate race. Pundits were ready to give Scotty his victory lap before EW cleaned his clock in the 2nd debate.

If she didn't do the swab and send it in, most certainly under an assumed name, or have one of her siblings do the honors, she's an idiot. And she is not an idiot. If the results came back showing some Cherokee or Delaware, she could resubmit under her own name and have something to present to the media--she could have shut Scott Brown UP. Scott would have been branded as the bully he is, and EW could have declared that she was vindicated instead of enduring MONTHS of "Faux-a-hontas" and "Pow Wow the Indian Girl" jokes.

Those genealogy DNA tests are not called into question. They are quite accurate because they are based upon large samples and specific markers. Skip Gates, her Harvard colleague, uses them all the time--that test is how Oprah found out she wasn't a Zulu (which is what she imagined she was--who doesn't want to be a Zulu? They're gutsy, strong, powerful enduring...instead, her line took her back to some peaceful little agrarian mud-hut village that never did anything dramatic); the tests are sufficiently accurate that they can take you back to the very villages and sub-tribal units where your ancestors were captured as slaves--and they have done just that. They have taken samples from around the world, and can tell you if your people came from northern or southern Japan, northern or southern China, northern or southern Iran, northern or southern...ANYWHERE--and even more specific than that in many cases. It's not experimental anymore--hasn't been for a long, long time. See this link and click on the links on the page--fascinating stuff: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/

Scott Brown got a lot of flak for the "Woo woo/tomahawk chop" shit he pulled, so he stopped going negative. He only started doing it because his numbers kept dipping and hers kept rising. That said, he caused EW a LOT of pain, and cost her a fair sum with her "pushback" commercial (when she should have been talking about other stuff), and it was only that his mean, shitty campaign staffers just HAD to be assholes--she has them to thank for the tipping point being reached in time for her to recover and surge.

As far as nasty campaign crap the GOP has pulled, just look to the recent past. Swiftboating? John McCain has an illegitimate """"blaaaaaack OMG OMG OMG!!!1!!!" love child--during the SC primary, no less? Jimmy Carter's stolen briefing book? Mike Dukakis and Willie Horton....oh, and his wife is a drunkard? Go to YT and plug in EW's name and Native American or Indian, and just look at the hate from the GOP. They go to depths that are lower than a snake's belly.