Obama related to Bush, Cheney and Brad Pitt!?

mzmolly

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Tue Mar-25-08 02:38 PM
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Obama related to Bush, Cheney and Brad Pitt!?

Edited on Tue Mar-25-08 02:41 PM by mzmolly

And Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie and Madonna? :crazy:

This is very interesting and a bit humorous.

Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.

Genealogist Christopher Child said that while the candidates often focus on pointing out differences between them, their ancestry shows they are more alike than they think.

"It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn't necessarily expect," Child said.

Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_genealogy

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izzie

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Tue Mar-25-08 02:49 PM
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1. We gone through this every 4 years. And so it goes.

It is sort of a fun thing to do. People for get that the serfs did not come to this country any more than the rich or royals did.

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OmmmSweetOmmm

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Tue Mar-25-08 02:56 PM
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2. It's all about lineage. eom

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Clear Blue Sky

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Tue Mar-25-08 02:58 PM
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3. We're all one big happy family...

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IowaGirl

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Tue Mar-25-08 05:09 PM
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4. Here we go, another "Bush" in the White House.....

:rofl:

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mzmolly

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Tue Mar-25-08 06:40 PM
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5. Heh! Good one! That means he's "tough on terra" right?

And, he can say nuclear! What a bonus!

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