Cheney and Obama are distant cousins: Mrs. Cheney - Yahoo! News

17 Oct 2007
This one's interesting.

There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack 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.


Posted by Dice on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 2:28 PM

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