{"id":1491,"date":"2007-10-17T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/barack-obama-and-dick-cheney-are-cousins\/1491\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:22:12","slug":"barack-obama-and-dick-cheney-are-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/barack-obama-and-dick-cheney-are-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/graphics\/2007\/10\/17\/wob.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/10\/17\/wobama117.xml\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">The wife of US Vice-President Dick Cheney has revealed that her husband is closely enough related to the Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him \u201ccousin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Cheney said that she had made the unlikely discovery of kinship between President George W Bush\u2019s hawkish deputy and the charismatic black Illinois senator while researching ancestry for her new memoir, Blue Skies, No Fences.<\/p>\n<p>The men are apparently eighth cousins, but Mrs Cheney said she did not include this in her memoir.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u201cThis is such an amazing American story that one ancestor \u2026 could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick\u2019s and Barack Obama,\u201d Mrs Cheney told MSNBC television.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mrs Cheney\u2019s spokesman, Senator Obama is a descendant of Mareen Duvall.<\/p>\n<p>The French Huguenot\u2019s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650s from England.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President\u2019s full name is Richard B Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Senator Obama, who wants to be the first black US president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery family has a black sheep,\u201d said Bill Burton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph The wife of US Vice-President Dick Cheney has revealed that her husband is closely enough related to the Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him \u201ccousin\u201d. Lynne Cheney said that she had made the unlikely discovery of kinship between President George W Bush\u2019s hawkish deputy and the charismatic black Illinois senator while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-1491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}