Obama and Cheney are cousins. Obama: "Cheney is the black sheep of the family"

Obama and Cheney, Making Connections
Wednesday, October 17, 2007; Page A06
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Obama and Cheney, Making Connections
Vice President Cheney is related to Sen. Barack Obama.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101602362.html?nav=rss_print/a

At least that was the stunning announcement made yesterday by Lynne Cheney, who said that the very white vice president from Wyoming is in fact the eighth cousin of Obama, the Senate's only African American member. She said she discovered the link, traced back to a Huguenot who figured prominently in Maryland history, while researching her latest book.

"This is such an amazing story," Cheney said in an interview on MSNBC, "that one ancestor, a man that came to Maryland, could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick's and Barack Obama's." Cristina Allegretti, Lynne Cheney's research and project manager at the American Enterprise Institute, said the vice president's wife did an exhaustive genealogical search of her family while working on "Blue Skies, No Fences." Her research led her to an early Cheney settler named Richard Cheney, whose granddaughter married Samuel Duvall, whose mother, Mareen Duvall, is distantly related to Obama. Lynne Cheney read a story that said Obama wa s related to Mareen Duvall, and realized the link.

Obama, whose mother was white, did not immediately comment on the revelation. But his campaign made light of the tie, without confirming it. "Obviously, Dick Cheney is the black sheep of the family," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said.

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That means I'm related to both. Cracks me up.

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Welcome to DU! :hi:

Right. Not so stunning to a genealogist, if you go back far enough.

If you go back far enough in any given area you will always find connections, and the connections are not limited to one race.

Doesn't every family have a Darth skeleton lurking somewhere?

Humorous answer by spokwman Burton..lol

but Obama's takes the cake!

family reunion? I double dog dare them. Think they would be afraid to eat, like O'liely? "Slap my hand, black soul man"

Chimpy's uncle too?:rofl: :rofl:

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Love it :D

this is as big as the watergate taping system. This was a warning to Obama we are collecting everything about your life and anyone around you. Congress should also start asking questions about this. Or maybe they already know and that is why they can't do anything.

I didn't look at it that way, but you are absolutely correct. And who else are they gathering information on?

What's the big deal.