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The Spectacle Blog
God bless the Mormons for their genealogical obsession. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. During the campaign, we found out from wife Lynne that Barack Obama was distantly related to Dick Cheney, and now this, from the AP:
A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and [Sarah] Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said.
You know who else the president is related to? Rush Limbaugh!
As for Limbaugh, he’s also a 10th cousin of the president — one time removed — through a common ancestor named Richmond Terrell, who Tyler said was a large landowner in Virginia, also in the 17th century.
Those genealogical geniuses also found that Obama is related to Warren Buffett and Brad Pitt, George W. Bush is related to Obama and Palin, and Palin is related to Harry Reid and Ann Coulter “through John Lathrop, who was exiled to the United States from England for being a pastor of an illegal independent church.”
None of this should be too surprising. In the Christian understanding, if you go back far enough, we all share common ancestors. You could almost say that we’re One Big Happy Family:
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Eric Cartman| 10.13.10 @ 10:47AM
Um . . . okay. I have to go now.
Margie| 10.13.10 @ 11:42AM
Hey, maybe we're ALL related to Obama.
Will| 10.13.10 @ 12:04PM
Another distraction piece, another "Colbert testimony" to draw attention away from the awful realities of the day, the absolute failure of the government and it's supporters. How desperate will they get in the next two years? What other "revealations" engineered to appeal to those with attention spans as long as a sound byte? I have quite a few cousins, that if I never see them again, it will be too soon.
danny| 10.13.10 @ 12:39PM
you know margie you just may be right. if so he is surely the black sheep in my family. now there i go being ugly.
Margie| 10.13.10 @ 1:54PM
I wonder if there's such a thing as a piebald sheep! :^)
heir2freedom | 10.13.10 @ 12:50PM
NEWS FLASH!
President Obama announces sudden "resignation" of Ancestry Czar Kevin Bacon.
In a related story... Obama announces new Department of Ancestry policy change from 6 degrees of separation to 2000 degrees of separation.
REAGAN VS. OBAMA IS LIBERTY VS. TYRANNY
http://heir2freedom.blogspot.c.....ranny.html
Margie| 10.13.10 @ 1:58PM
Very funny! Cool website, too.
bfwebster | 10.13.10 @ 12:53PM
Actually, it's not just "in the Christian understanding". Research in human population genetics, combined with some common sense and reasoning, shows that, for example, virtually everyone with European ancestry is descended from both Charlemagne and Mohammed. (Don't take my word for it; go look it up.) Ten generations is a long ways to go back; double that, and I suspect most of us are related to Obama.
ggoblue| 10.13.10 @ 2:00PM
large landowner in virginia??? barak obama has slave owning ancestors? and thats just on the christian side of the fambly...the moslem side still owns slaves today...
ncatty| 10.13.10 @ 2:22PM
We are all Cro Magnons.
Bob Miller| 10.13.10 @ 3:52PM
No one can be faulted for being related to Obama, only for voting for him.
Margie| 10.13.10 @ 8:20PM
I guess you haven't heard. They recently discovered a voting gene. Chromosome O. So, it's inherited.
Linda Joy Adams| 10.13.10 @ 11:21PM
On file? with the Morman Church ( because of one family that belonged) is the paternal heritage of Obama's mother showing Palin and Obama as third cousins through a different ancestral lineage. Google or Bing me for more info: Linda Joy Adams