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It seems that everyone's favorite current US president has his roots in Sweden. Who could've guessed?

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1665693,00050001.htm

US President George W Bush has Swedish ancestors, reports said on Monday quoting research conducted by a US-based genealogical society.

The Swedish Colonial Society said it has traced the president's ancestors to the 10th generation and discovered a link between Bush and Mans Andersson, who left Sweden in October 1639.

Andersson had sailed from the port city Gothenburg, on the west coast, by the ship "Kalmar Nyckel" to the Swedish colony New Sweden on the Delaware river on the eastern seaboard of the US, the Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dagbladet said.

"George W Bush and his relatives are very interested in this information. These are their oldest known European roots," David Emmi of the Swedish Colonial Society told the newspaper.

Andersson started to farm tobacco and built a farm that he named Silleryd.

Researchers believe that the farm could be named after Sillerud in the western Swedish province Varmland.

According to the research, Andersson was married twice. His second wife was also the daughter of a Swedish immigrant.

They had six children including a son, Christoper Mansson, born around 1652.

Mansson had eight children by two marriages including Ann Mounts, who in 1727 married Robert Mercer, who is an ancestor of the Bush family.

The Swedish Colonial Society was established 1909 in Pennsylvania.

Its main task is to "collect, preserve and publish materials relating to the history of the Swedes and Finns in America."

Some 20 million Americans are estimated to have Swedish ancestry.

W00T!!! :D

Actually, this is a wonderful historical find.

Thank you Swedish Colonial Alliance. Keep up the good work.

Who cares where he's from? He's still a jackass.

That just makes me embarassed. He's one of the schmucks I dislike the most, and now he's from the same country as well!

What sweden is one of the best countrys and he can trace his family further back eek.

Here is someone else checking out Bush's "roots".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/piezas/persson-bush-prodi.jpg

Even the best blood can apparently get so diluted as to result in such degenerates.

Even the best blood can apparently get so diluted as to result in such degenerates.
Fass, we all know that, were you to become the US President, you would have done everything Bush has done to sabotage the US's public image and economic might. I'll bet Bush is the result of some sort of super-secret Swedish infiltration and breeding project, like that Star Trek movie where they made the fake Picard so that they could destroy the Federation from within.
Except that this is so much more painful than watching movies based on '90s scifi television over a decade after the original premise has run out of steam.

Eh, what does it matter? Most of us have roots all over the damn place.

What a really ugly April fool joke! :rolleyes:

What a really ugly April fool joke! :rolleyes:

We wish.

Except that this is so much more painful than watching movies based on '90s scifi television over a decade after the original premise has run out of steam.

Nemesis was good! You're fired.

Nemesis was good! You're fired.

You, sir, apparently lack even a vestige of taste. Explaining, also, that oh, so three years ago "The Apprentice" reference.

Here is someone else checking out Bush's "roots".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/piezas/persson-bush-prodi.jpg

seems to be enjoying himself...

Nemesis was good! You're fired.

Nemesis was a train-wreck of a film that borrowed so heavily from Wrath of Khan that it might as well have been entitled 'Wrath of Khan: II'. It was an inglorious end to a film series that effectively died after First Contact.

ahh that explain why he studder all the time.

I feel sorry for GW. I hope that one day Finland will rise up and conquer Sweden. Norway can have a whack at them too! Down with Sweden!

SUOMI FOREVER!!!

Perkele, Sweden is the best!

He isn't Swedish unless he owns a sex toy. :p

That certainly explains his lust for big government.

Well that certainly crushes my image of all Swedes as tall, statuesque beings of perfect physique and insatiable sexual appetite. Dang.

We Norwegians have suspected this for quite some time.

Here is someone else checking out Bush's "roots".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/piezas/persson-bush-prodi.jpg
Hahahaha!!!!
*FLORT*
:D

Bah, that's old Europe.

thats it everyone. Bush is president, we all know that. We all know that he is the dumbest piece of shit in a donkey's ass. But bitching about this and roots just makes everyone more pissed. If we're all gonna do something, then try to go to the source, IMPEACH BUSH!

shit, this is about swedish roots...umm...GO SWEDEN!:D



Oh, by the way, my name is George W. Bush, but you can just call me asshole!:upyours:

:(

More Star Trek... someone should create a Star Trek thread.

:(

More Star Trek... someone should create a Star Trek thread.
I'm torn between my tendency to want to argue and defend Nemesis, and acknowledging that Nemesis wasn't that great. As a matter of fact, I really didn't like it that much. Damned stupid John Logan.

Even the best blood can apparently get so diluted as to result in such degenerates.

True! The Swedes had Gustavus Adolphus... and it's been downhill ever since!

Bah, that's old Europe.

No no man... that's COLD Europe. ;)

Oh dear. How embarrassing.

He isn't Swedish unless he owns a sex toy. :p

Um... ;)

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/08/31_ap_laurabush/images/laura_large.jpg

Well, he has certainly inherited the perceived innate moral superiority. No one is more moral than a Swede, if you ask a Swede, that is.

ahh that explain why he studder all the time.
Eye-ronnic.

It is really necessary to add the present tense marker -s to English verbs.