It is hard to think of two more different politicians than Dick Cheney and Barack Obama. But it turns out that they are actually eighth cousins. To borrow Richard Littlejohn's catchphrase, you couldn't make it up.
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Ian
October 17th, 2007 9:25pm Report this commentif you're willing to pay the good people at burke's peerage the things you'd find out would make you pull all mannor of "what the" faces like for example G.W Bush is our Queen's 13th cousin well somewhere around 13th
Elli
October 17th, 2007 9:40pm Report this commentSlow news day? We all have a common ancestor, remember?
Purple Scorpion
October 18th, 2007 12:03pm Report this commentObama's spokesman was quoted as saying, "Every family has a black sheep".
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