Obama and Cheney: Love you, cuz!
From an ABCNEWS.com Blog:
All in the Family: Obama and Cheney?
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama may have a distant cousin he's not too happy about.
In an interview with MSNBC today Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, admitted that she discovered that "Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins," going back eight generations and having a common ancestor.
Part of Obama's classic stump speech consistently includes criticism of the vice president. The senator is seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination for president.
At a town hall event in Amana, Iowa Sen Obama didn't let up on his regular critique of the president and vice president saying, "We have to bring an end to Bush and Cheney politics……(they) led us into the worst policy disaster of all time, and that having a "Long resume says nothing about your character. "
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded today saying, "Obviously Dick Cheney is sort of the black sheep of the family."
I find this story absolutely hilarious. He’s a Republican; he’s a Democrat. One hates the other. The black one calls the white one a black sheep.
Of course, if you zoom around the genealogy enough, I suspect you would find that a lot more people in power are related to each other than we would think. One time I found a genealogy website for the Kirkpatrick family, and through that line I am distantly related to a number of famous people, including the Gaither family. Of course, you have to go back (I think) ten generations, and then forward another eight or ten generations, which makes us incredibly distant cousins.
All in the Family: Obama and Cheney?
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama may have a distant cousin he's not too happy about.
In an interview with MSNBC today Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, admitted that she discovered that "Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins," going back eight generations and having a common ancestor.
Part of Obama's classic stump speech consistently includes criticism of the vice president. The senator is seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination for president.
At a town hall event in Amana, Iowa Sen Obama didn't let up on his regular critique of the president and vice president saying, "We have to bring an end to Bush and Cheney politics……(they) led us into the worst policy disaster of all time, and that having a "Long resume says nothing about your character. "
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded today saying, "Obviously Dick Cheney is sort of the black sheep of the family."
I find this story absolutely hilarious. He’s a Republican; he’s a Democrat. One hates the other. The black one calls the white one a black sheep.
Of course, if you zoom around the genealogy enough, I suspect you would find that a lot more people in power are related to each other than we would think. One time I found a genealogy website for the Kirkpatrick family, and through that line I am distantly related to a number of famous people, including the Gaither family. Of course, you have to go back (I think) ten generations, and then forward another eight or ten generations, which makes us incredibly distant cousins.
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