WASHINGTON (AFP) — They are political polar opposites, but for Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, hidden family ties run deep, as they are distant cousins.
The vice president’s wife Lynne Cheney told MSNBC that she had uncovered the bizarre political twist while researching her new book, a memoir of growing up in the western state of Wyoming.
“Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins … isn’t that an amazing thing?” Cheney said in the interview.
“If you go back eight generations they have a common ancestor,” Cheney said, adding they were both descended from a man that moved out west from Maryland.
“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 as Dick’s and Barack Obama.”
Obama’s spokesman Bill Burton offered a tongue in cheek reply.
“Every family has its black sheep,” he told AFP.
Obama often highlights his rich multicultural family heritage on the campaign trail — his father was from Kenya and his mother was from Kansas.
5 thoughts on “Obama and Cheney are cousins!”
What an amazing story between obama and Chaney!
But I wonder why Bill Gates finds it hard to believe when I tell him I am his not so distant cousin!
Sara I really like your thoughts.
Dear ER
Millions of Ethiopians around the glob visit your page in search of urgent and crucial issues that may impact our country and the Diaspora at large. This head line story “Obama and Cheney are Cousins” is more suited for a Hollywood tabloid news paper than ER which is known to expose Woyane and wicked KIC . Please stay out of substandard gossip stories that are irrelevant in a political spectrum.
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Belay Zeleke,
We also need to know what is going on around us. I do not think that we have to restrict our visisons to ethiopia only. All news regarding ethiopia are far from truth and they will never come true. All our news end up with sorrows and fakes. WE need a man with dedication and honest open and want to sacrify him self or his properties. But too much talk is nor paying. All Ethiopian king talke for centuries and we end up in the condition that we are in now. So accept the truth and do just one thig and stop to much talking.
Have a good day
Nice story!
I Won’t be suprised though if Melse is a Cousin of Hitler !!