Sure it sounds like a fluff piece from the BBC. The oldest American. First vote in over 50 years. A nun.
A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election.
Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.
Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed by reading newspapers and watching TV at the convent.
"I'm encouraged by Senator Obama," she says.
"I've never met him, but he seems to be a good man with a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern," she adds.
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But is there more to this story?
Is she connected with the violent branch of Catholic extremists known as Dominicans?
Two Roman Catholic nuns jailed for non-violent action against nuclear weapons were also listed as terrorists by US authorities.
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Non-violent? Read this ...
The Dominican nuns broke into a US nuclear missile silo in Colorado in 2002 and painted crucifixes with their own blood, earning Platte and Gilbert prison sentences of 41 and 33 months respectively.
What is it about Barack Hussein Obama that appeals to violent religious extremists? To aging Catholic nuns? What do you really know about him?