Cheany and Obama are cousins....
Cheney and Obama are distant cousins: Mrs. Cheney Tue Oct 16, 6:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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. Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Mrs. Cheney told MSNBC on Tuesday that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths."
The common ancestor was Mareen Devall, who the Chicago Sun-Times said was a 17th century immigrant from France.
Mrs. Cheney said she discovered the link through family research for her new book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," about growing up in Wyoming.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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. Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Mrs. Cheney told MSNBC on Tuesday that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths."
The common ancestor was Mareen Devall, who the Chicago Sun-Times said was a 17th century immigrant from France.
Mrs. Cheney said she discovered the link through family research for her new book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," about growing up in Wyoming.
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Fun story. Dick Cheney probably laughed the loudest. He is not popular with the media, liberals, and Washington insiders (a triple redundancy?), but here in WY has a reputation for possessing intelligence and a sense of humor. Washed out at Yale or Harvard, then worked as a lineman for the power company in Casper until Lynn urged him to go to UW. 0 -
I wonder if I could get Obama to go hunting with Cheany? I buy the shells. 0 -
I would suspect the first thing Cheaney did was to see if there was any way to repeal the thirteenth amendment. I would suspect that if they are related that one of Obama's relatives belonged to one of Cheany's relatives. He might then try to reclaim his property. 0 -
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I wonder if I could get Obama to go hunting with Cheany? I buy the shells.
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it also came out that Bush and Obama are related.. if I remember correctly it was 18th and twice removed for Bush.
edit: that was on Fox news this morning while I was getting ready.0 -
isnt everyone related in some way ? 0 -
quote:The two men could hardly be more different. Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Wow! If that's not over-simplified, I don't know what over-simplification is!! Does that mean that Cheney is our first black vice president?
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I wanted to see if the auto-censor was causing everyone else to misspell our VP's name.[}:)]0
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