First we had genealogy's amazing revelations about Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond.
As if that wasn't hard enough to swallow, today's we learn that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are related:
From Reuters:
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.
Mrs. Cheney told MSNBC on Tuesday that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths."
The common ancestor was Mareen Devall, who the Chicago Sun-Times said was a 17th century immigrant from France.
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
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