Canidates '08

John McCain is 71 years old. He was born on august 29th 1936 on a military installation in the Panama Canal Zone. That is where his mother and father were stationed, they were both a navy officer. Today his mother is still alive, she is 95 years old. His family is Scotch-Irish. McCain's great aunt was a desendant of Robert the Bruce, who was an early Scottish king. John Young, an ancester of McCain, severed as a staff for General George Wahington. That was durring the American Revolution. All of McCain's ancesters fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. Willaim Alexander McCain owned 52 slaves on his farm.

Barack Obama is 47 years old. He was born on august 4th 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His family are Scottish, Irish, Cherokee Indains, and Lueo people of Kenya. His family is from Kentcky. His great-great-great-great grandpa owned two slaves. One of the slaves was a 15 year old girl, and the other one was a 25 year old man. His grandma owned two slaves as well. She owned older slaves one was 60 and that was the man and the woman was 58.