Guess who are cousins!
Just when you thought politics couldn't get any weirder....
The Vice President's wife, Lynne Cheney, was on television yesterday hawking her new book which traces both her and Dick's ancestry back to pioneer days. Guess what she found? It seems that Dick is related to somebody else prominent in politics ... he's a cousin of Barack Obama's.
I'm sure both of them were just delighted to learn that news.
It could be just a smear tactic designed to discredit Obama.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him "cousin." Eighth cousin, that is.
....According to her spokeswoman, Sen. Obama, D-Ill., is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot's son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650's from England ...
....A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black U.S. president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response. "Every family has a black sheep," said spokesman Bill Burton.[..]"
You know, I can totally see the resemblance. Why, if you aged Obama 60 years, made him white, removed his heart, emptied his circulatory system and re-filled his veins with ice water, programmed a malfunctioning Super Smash Bro's video game into his brain ...why, they'd be twins!
Hmm ... does this mean Obama will be invited to Dick's bunker for Thanksgiving?
Anyway, it's sort of old news -- what that Lynn won't do to sell books -- because last month a story by the Chicago Sun-Times outed these family ties. Turns out Obama is also related to the two George Bushs and, get this Democrats, Harry Truman.
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