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Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are cousins
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by nukegingrich | October 16, 2007 at 04:50 pm
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There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins.So says the vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, who said she discovered that her husband of 43 years is eighth cousins with the senator from Illinois.
The two men could hardly be more different. ... ...
The common ancestor was Mareen Devall, who the Chicago Sun-Times said was a 17th century immigrant from France.
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at 03:50 on October 17th, 2007
I don't know -- this is burning up the blogosphere right now, but doesn't your average person have something like hundreds of thousands of eight cousins?
From Slate:
Blogs are calling it "strange news"—a "bizarre revelation" "[f]rom the WTF file." "Are you sitting down?" asksNew York Times' Caucus blog. Well, I don't know, should I be? the
Not really, says Utah genealogist Chip Hughes. Eighth cousins is nothing to get excited about. "If you told me that, I'd go 'Oh, ok.' I wouldn't go, 'What?'"
he says. "You think about it, there's only about 30 years per
generation. If you go back to the Revolutionary War, that's eight
generations. With the amount of people living then versus now, it's
just not that unusual."
Hughes said you can't put an exact number
on odds of two people being distant cousins. But chances are,
everyone's got a famous relative. Descendants of the pilgrims who
sailed over on the Mayflower currently number in the hundreds of
thousands. Obama is also apparently related to President Bush. "My 9th
great grandfather was Roger Williams," founder of Rhode Island, Hughes
said. "There's horse thieves and heroes in everybody's line."
at 05:40 on October 17th, 2007
"There's horse thieves and heroes in everybody's line.": that's a fantastic quote.
at 10:01 on October 17th, 2007
And then there's the "Six Degrees of Separation" concept ....
at 06:07 on October 17th, 2007
This is an Archie Bunker moment!
at 06:35 on October 17th, 2007
Right on, Urbano!
I love geneaology and family stories. Yes, when you go back far enough, you find amazing links. I have one twig traced to the late 900's in Europe. But really, it's about the family stories that put together, make "history."
at 10:22 on October 17th, 2007
It's also somehow very Dave Chapelle.
at 06:42 on October 17th, 2007
It is a perfect example of how you cannot and why you should not make assumptions about people because of the colour of their skin.
I just want to know if Hillary will play this up in the campaign!
at 08:31 on October 17th, 2007
nukegingrich, Yes you do. Thanks for the morning laugh.
at 10:22 on October 17th, 2007
LOLCOPTER
at 16:34 on October 18th, 2007
nukegingrich, Good stuff. I would think the more pressing question is "Are they Good Hunting Buddies"
Whats next on the ole rumour mill? Jessica Simpson and Steven Hawking are related?
at 18:31 on April 14th, 2009
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And Michelle Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:
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(II) It is opined that Bill Clinton committed terrifying, racist, hate crimes during his presidency, and I am not free to say anything further about it. ‘Be sure your sins will find you out’ (Numbers 32:23).
(III) What if basically all racial-minority people would subscribe to the interpretations that George Herbert Walker Bush committed monstrous, racist, hate crimes while he was the President of the United States? It will eventually come out: it is only a matter of time.
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