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Offline Yisrael

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Cheney and Obama are distant cousins
« on: October 17, 2007, 03:20:00 AM »
 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.
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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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Re: Cheney and Obama are distant cousins
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2007, 04:18:34 AM »
Interesting although not very that meaningful.  I heard once that all human beings are 17th cousins or something like that, and all people of a particular ethnic or racial group are cousins of a higher order. 
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Re: Cheney and Obama are distant cousins
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2007, 08:24:52 AM »
no suprise here...Monkey see monkey do.
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Re: Cheney and Obama are distant cousins
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2007, 09:17:22 AM »
My uncle is princess Diana's 7th cousin.
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Re: Cheney and Obama are distant cousins
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2007, 12:02:44 PM »
My 5th cousin was biblical King David.LOL no he was a Bush ,no he was a Sharpton.Man I hope their wrong.LOL ;)
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