Obama a distant cousin to Cheney, Bush (VIDEO)

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/obama-and-bush-are-cousins/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-03-26/obama-related-to-bush-and-churchill/1083232

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8lQgD4O7s

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/FOX_Obama_related_to_Bush_Cheney_1017.html



Dick Cheney and President Obama may not share a political philosophy, but they do share a family tree.

Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, said during an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday that her husband and Obama were eighth cousins, a fact she discovered while researching family ancestry for her new memoir.

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 Cheney and Barack Obama, she said.

According to Factcheck.org, Obama and Bush are 11th cousins, both descended from Samuel Hinckley, who lived in Massachusetts in the 17th century.

And while Obama and Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt are ninth cousins who share a relative who died in 1769, Hillary Clinton is a ninth cousin twice removed of Pitt's partner Angelina Jolie, sharing a common ancestor who died in 1718.