Illinois Sen. Barack Obama may have a distant cousin he's not too happy about.I know you can't pick your relatives - especially those eight generations ago - but this revelation about Barack Obama is undoubtedly the end of what could have been a promising career.
In an interview with MSNBC today Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, admitted that she discovered that "Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins," going back eight generations and having a common ancestor.
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded today saying, "Obviously Dick Cheney is sort of the black sheep of the family.
It's that old 'one drop' theory thing.
