Mrs. Cheney: Cheney and Obama are distant cousins

[kurth]

Cheney and Obama are distant cousins: Mrs. Cheney
Tue Oct 16, 6:01 PM ET

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/pl_nm/usa_politics_cheney_obama_dc

[rosesaylavee]

1. And Obama has said ... what about this revelation?

[Bicoastal]

2. Probably Obama said something like...

"Damn."

[Sparkly]

5. I think he should call Cheney

and ask what he'll be bringing to the next family reunion picnic. ;)

[RestoreGore]

8. I heard he wants to take him on a hunting trip...

Just kidding. ;-).

[rosesaylavee]

11. Ha!

[DesEtoiles]

3. what exactly is an 8th cousin?

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. They have the same great great great great great great great grandparents

[UTUSN]

4. From a Lebanese novel far-far in the footure?!1 n/t

[goclark]

6. I would disown that cousin

No way ~ :crazy:

[dancingme]

7. Cheney is not black enough to be VP

don't you know?

[Poiuyt]

9. Weren't Bush and Kerry distant cousins also?

[beyurslf]

10. Um, aren't we all 8th cousins somehow?

[Subdivisions]

13. We're all cousins...eventually. n/t