Cheney-Obama connection unites us all
Clarence Page
October 24, 2007
Lynne Cheney recently sparked a big laugh at a National Press Club luncheon with her remarks about the criticism her husband, Vice President D!ck Cheney, has taken from Sen. Barack Obama.
"Now, I have told Barack," she said, "he really does need to keep these disputes in the family."
Rim shot. Laughter. Applause.
Mrs. Cheney was referring to her discovery, while researching her newly released memoir, that the Illinois Democrat is a distant cousin to her Republican husband. As the electric-haired, rags-to-riches boxing promoter Don King likes to say: "Only in America!" Mrs. Cheney apparently agrees.
"I just thought it was such an amazing American story," she said, "that one ancestor could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths."
And, as if that were not enough evidence that this is a small country after all, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in September that Obama is distantly related to President Bush. Bush and Obama are descended from Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole of 17th Century Massachusetts. Cheney and Obama's ancestors were Mareen and Susannah Duvall, 17th Century immigrants from France.
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Bush, Cheney and Obama are related
Sorry ya'll, I had to. No pun intended. 
