Thursday, October 18, 2007

Cheney and Obama are Distant Cousins


"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."

"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."

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Thank God they only share ancestry and not the same views.

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