According to Lynne Cheney, during her research for her memoir, "Blue Skies, No Fences," she discovered that her husband Dick Cheney and presidential candidate Barack Obama are related --- they are ninth cousins, once removed...Obama is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. Her son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650's from England.

"Every family has a black sheep," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. (read more)

This also means that he is related to Bush and Kerry. 300M people in this country, and we've still got a haphazard genetic dynasty? I'm beginning to see where the CTs get their grains of truth (and blow them into large glass bubbles of idiocy).