Vox Box: Does Your Family Have A Black Sheep?

Surprise, surprise. Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are cousins . Eighth cousins —distant enough they could marry in states that recognized gay unions, but I digress. While researching her ancestry for her new book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” a memoir about growing up in Wyoming, Lynne Cheney found the tie. “Sen. Obama is a descendent of Maureen Duvall. This French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650’s from England,” said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney. “This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor … could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama,” Lynne Cheney told MSNBC. A spokesman for Obama offered a tongue-in-cheek response. “Every family has a black sheep,” said spokesman Bill Burton.

QUESTION: Does your family have a black sheep?

Originally posted at Vox Box