RitcheyRch
10-17-2007, 07:25 PM
Wonder if any truth to it.
http://www.knbc.com/politics/14359478/detail.html
It turns out Vice President Dick Cheney and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are closer than they appear.
Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife, told MSNBC that her husband and Obama are eighth cousins.
She said she discovered the long-ago ties between the two while researching her ancestry for her latest book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," a memoir about growing up in Wyoming.
Her book doesn't mention the ancestral ties.
According to her spokeswoman, Obama is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot's son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650's from England.
"This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama," she told MSNBC.
A spokesman for Obama offered a tongue-in-cheek response: "Every family has a black sheep."
http://www.knbc.com/politics/14359478/detail.html
It turns out Vice President Dick Cheney and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are closer than they appear.
Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife, told MSNBC that her husband and Obama are eighth cousins.
She said she discovered the long-ago ties between the two while researching her ancestry for her latest book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," a memoir about growing up in Wyoming.
Her book doesn't mention the ancestral ties.
According to her spokeswoman, Obama is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot's son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650's from England.
"This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama," she told MSNBC.
A spokesman for Obama offered a tongue-in-cheek response: "Every family has a black sheep."