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Vice-President **** Cheney and Democratic candidate Barack Obama are related, Mr Cheney's wife says.
Lynne Cheney said she had discovered while doing family research for a new book that her husband and the Illinois senator were eighth cousins. She said she traced a common ancestor of the two men to be a 17th century immigrant from France. She described the connection as "amazing". "This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths." According to Mrs Cheney's spokeswoman, Mr Obama is distantly related to Mareen Duvall, whose son Samuel married the granddaughter of Mr Cheney's ancestor, also called Richard Cheney. |
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sounds like a load of crap to me
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Now, dont you beat around the bush (George W. or any other) you say what you think!
Come on now, dont hold back, tell it like it is, make a discursive argument about it ... ![]() |
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Is this for real?
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acording to the BBC
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They say everybody's related to everybody else somehow.
Of course, there's a few small towns where that's REALLY true ![]() |
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I've heard about that too. Its the same type of way I'm related to Hilary Clinton (does that mean I'm going to hell automatically?). Like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon with politics.
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Maybe that's why the govt. is such a mess....inbreeding.
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OMG Lily! I was thinking the same thing...but since I'm from Kentucky I thought people might accuse me of that too O_o
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Hey, Cloudy, I'm from Tennessee. You guys don't have an exclusive on that
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