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Lynne Cheney: VP, Obama are eighth cousins www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21340764/ Obama camp responds to revelation: ‘Every family has a black sheep’ updated 4:27 a.m. PT, Wed., Oct. 17, 2007 WASHINGTON - Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him “cousin.” Eighth cousin, that is. Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday. She said she uncovered 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. “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,” Lynne Cheney told MSNBC. According to her...
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