if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
I Am Your Father’s Brother’s Nephew’s Cousin’s Former Roommate
by Hal_10000
Our nation is only slightly less inbred than the royal family.
This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt’s girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.
Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates—Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.
Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother’s side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.
Genealogist Christopher Child said that while the candidates often focus on pointing out differences between them, their ancestry shows they are more alike than they think.
“It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn’t necessarily expect,” Child said.
Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.
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Obama and President Bush are 10th cousins, once removed, linked by Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662.
Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769.
Clinton and Jolie are ninth cousins, twice removed, both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.
So how long will it be before HIllary denounces Obama as yet another part of the Bush family?
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Even scarier is the possibility that many of us on this blog are related.
Imagine the family get-together at Thanksgiving:
Harley shows up drunk and keeps challenging padders to a bout of Indian wrestling.
Seattle Outcast makes a smart-ass comment after Iconoclast finishes saying Grace and they start flinging stuffing at each other.
Manwhore draws a mustache on dwex and paints his fingernails while he’s taking a nap. Dwex demands that Lee cut Manwhore out of the will.
Hazehead shows up two hours late and tries to make a bong out of the cornucopia.
Para goes off and tells everyone to sit down and shut the hell up.
LOL thrill..................
but this artical is BS, if you go back far enough in some ones heritage you can find some cross branch of family trees to someone famous or important.
hell, i know my Family was related to some nobility from North westren Germany and Belgium, so if you follow it long enough im related to the royal family of england.
Imagine the family get-together at Thanksgiving:
I don’t seem to be there. Guess my invitation got lost in the mail, huh?
I don’t seem to be there. Guess my invitation got lost in the mail, huh?
My guess is you just had enough good sense to stay home and avoid the disaster! XD
I don’t seem to be there. Guess my invitation got lost in the mail, huh?
Given THAT cast of characters, lets just go to Denny’s for a turkey sandwich.
Imagine the family get-together at Thanksgiving:
Hey, that looks like fun, can I try?
At the blessing Harley thinks he saw the turkey move and double taps it with his 44 magnum.
S.O. looks at the turkey and says ,"Hell, I’ve gone out with better looking turkeys than that”.
Lee says ,"In China we can eat anything we like, more freedom, and besides, the turkeys are much bigger there anyway”.
Hal and Beano keep bringing up the fact that since Obama is now President everyone seems happier, ain’t socialism grand?
We keep calling for Gripe to come to the table but he is down in the basement arguing with flogg about why Gary Wright’s The Dreamweaver changed the rock genre forever.
And we can’t get kevinmkr to cut the turkey, he is too busy text messaging his bookie on the new point spread in the Appalachian State/Michagan game.
S.O. looks at the turkey and says ,"Hell, I’ve gone out with better looking turkeys than that”
And uglier ones too, but I’m not going to talk much about that....
ok, THOSE versions of Thanksgiving dinner about made me spit my tea out on the monitor from laughing. Guess I should be glad i’m a lurker and a very occasional poster-my own family has enough dysfunction!
Ah, richtaylor; you have surpassed me and I salute you! I taught you well!
I don’t seem to be there. Guess my invitation got lost in the mail, huh?
Well, notice that I left myself out too. ;)
Manwhore draws a mustache on dwex and paints his fingernails while he’s taking a nap. Dwex demands that Lee cut Manwhore out of the will.
Actually the image is me in my Army fatigues taking a picture of dwex naked in a stress position. In my hand I have a sign that says:
RTFLC: It’s torture!
I taught you well!
And you thought the pebble was still in your hand.
Silly Master Kan.
Well, notice that I left myself out too. ;)
While Lee tries to pass out in the hammock, Thrill waits in a bush and pounces on him repeatedly with vicious purple nurples, noogies, indian burns and superthumps to the forehead.
Lee keeps waking up furious but looks around and can’t see the Thrill (who’s dashed back in the bushes). He then spends the rest of his time half relaxing with one eye open until.....repeat.
And we can’t get kevinmkr to cut the turkey, he is too busy text messaging his bookie on the new point spread in the Appalachian State/Michagan game.
Actually rich, I picture you and I (along with Manwhore and H. Ratliff) in the other room watching the Lions and Cowboys while the rest of these fine folks fight over the last of the cranberry sauce.
Priorities, eh?
I don’t seem to be there. Guess my invitation got lost in the mail, huh?
Weren’t you in the kitchen cooking the turkies?
<ducks>
I don’t seem to be there. Guess my invitation got lost in the mail, huh?
Weren’t you in the kitchen cooking the turkies?
<ducks>
You better duck!
This is the stupidest story ever. You can link anyone to anyone if you go far back enough.
This is the stupidest story ever.
Perhaps, but it still made the news big time yesterday. I guess it was a slow news day. :)
My mother-in-law is a cousin of some sort to Kurt Russell.
Given THAT cast of characters, lets just go to Denny’s for a turkey sandwich.
Good idea!
Posted by Seattle Outcast on 03/27/08 at 09:24 AM from United States
S.O. looks at the turkey and says ,"Hell, I’ve gone out with better looking turkeys than that”
And uglier ones too, but I’m not going to talk much about that....
After wich is his know as “Speaker-to-Dinners”
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Please say it ain’t so, since there is a really, really good chance that I am a not-so-distant cousin of Brad Pitt.
Actually, I have a 2nd (or 3rd, I can’t remember) cousin named Brad Pitt. However, I’ve met this cousin and he is about as far from THE Brad Pitt as Paris Hilton is from Einstein.