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Reuters Cheney and Obama are distant cousins: Mrs Cheney Tue Oct 16, 6:01 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but US Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins.
So says the vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, who said she discovered that her husband of 43 years is eighth cousins with the senator from Illinois. Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get US troops out of Iraq. 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. Mrs Cheney said she discovered the link through family research for her new book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," about growing up in Wyoming.
US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) re-enacts being sworn-in by US Vice President Dick Cheney on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 4, 2005. With him are his wife Michelle and their two daughters Malia and Sasha. Obama, 43, is the only African-American in the Senate, and the fifth in its history. according to the vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, who said she discovered that her husband of 43 years is eighth cousins with the senator from Illinois.
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