SHOCK: Barack Obama Related to Dick Cheney AND President Bush
Say it isn’t so.
As if the ‘08 presidential election wasn’t wacky enough, Alexander Mooney and Lauren Kornreich of CNN’s political ticker report the impossible: Barack Obama is cousins with Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.
From CNN:
Go back far enough, the saying goes, and everyone’s related.
But could it be possible that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney share a common ancestor?
Cheney’s wife Lynne says yes.
In an interview on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Cheney said that in the course of researching her husband’s genealogy for her new book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” she discovered that the two public figures share an ancestor eight generations ago.
“Think about this,” Mrs. Cheney said. “This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor, a man that came to Maryland, could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama’s.”
But is blood thicker than the partisan waters of Washington? Apparently not.
Even though Obama is related to her husband, Mrs. Cheney said she is not supporting the Illinois Democrat’s White House bid.
Reacting to the news, Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton told CNN’s Dana Bash with tongue in cheek, “Obviously, Dick Cheney is sort of the black sheep of the family.”
But Obama’s family ties to the Bush administration don’t stop with Cheney. According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times last September, Obama is also an 11th cousin of the president himself. The two share a 17th century Massachusetts relative.
Sen. Obama recently called the Vice President his crazy uncle that lives in the attic.
With the Vice President of the United States often compared to Darth Vader for his evil decisions, there is only one video in the galaxy that can adequately express how so many of us feel:
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Star Wars and Prairie Dog
With the recent revelation that Fred Thompson is also related to Elvis Presley, this election cycle is turning into a family affair.
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Cheney on Obama relationship
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Stumble it!
ok, so let me get this straight. Obama is cousin to both cheney and bush and he has a chance at being our next president? What is wrong with all of you? If this is true than lets do something for our country and get the presidency out of this family. Obama, if you really cared about this nation and all of its people than you would step down and let Hillary Clinton show you how to be a president!
Well Lacey, let me get this right. Obama has won the nomination and Hillary has put her support behind him, if you really cared about this nation and all of its people than you would too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am amazed and dismayed at some of the comments made here. We like to rub our Democracy in the faces of the world, Tell them how wonderful the process is. Yet, when it doesn’t go our way, we become like children, and show the world how we really feel about our wonderful Democracy.
If this is ture and yes I do believe it is, so this means that it hasn’t and will not change for the people of the United States! George Bush is a 33rd degree FreeMason and that Barack is a 32d degree freemason…….hmmmm lets get this straight people!!!!! Don’t vote for the same power that will bring the NWO!!!!!! DON”T VOTE AND THEY CAN”T RULE!!!!!