That's the word according Lynne Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney's wife.
While doing research for Blue Skies, No Fences, her new book about growing up in Wyoming, Mrs. Cheney says she discovered that her husband is eighth cousins with Barack Obama.
Despite their common bloodline, the two are vastly different. To start, Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. And as far as we know, the senator from Illinois hasn't shot any of his friends in the face.
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.
It's a good thing Obama didn't inherit the Cheney smirk.
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