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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 29, 2010, 04:27:42 PM
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President Obama and US Senator-elect Scott Brown -- who are opposites politically -- are distant cousins, genealogically speaking.
US Senator-elect Scott Brown
According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the president and Brown are 10th cousins. The group said Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, are both descendants of Richard Singletary of Haverhill. Singletary died in 1687 when he was 102 years old.
Obama's family is descended from Singletary's oldest son, Jonathan, who changed his surname to Dunham. Brown's family can be traced to Nathaniel Singletary, Jonathan's brother, the group said in a press release issued today.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/obama_and_brown.html
I don't know why but this makes me LOL.
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Wasn't there something about Obama being related to another politician a few months/ a year ago?? I think it was Dick Cheney.
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Wasn't there something about Obama being related to another politician a few months/ a year ago?? I think it was Dick Cheney.
You are correct, sir.
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Partly correct. He's also related to GHWB and GWB !!! :o
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What the hell is this? 6 degrees of Barack Obama? I don't know that I could handle discovering that I'm related to The MessiahnFuhrer without large amounts of alcohol. :cheers1:
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Massachusetts? 1687?
When I read that, for a minute or two, I forgot Obama was black!
Oh wait. Chris Matthews used that line already...
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We are all related. Everyone on earth. The most apart we can be is 16th cousins.
That means we all have about 4 billion 10th cousins walking around. That's just the way things are.
I'll bet BEG is a 10th cousin of Obama. It isn't her fault and it certainly isn't newsworthy.
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We are all related. Everyone on earth. The most apart we can be is 16th cousins.
That means we all have about 4 billion 10th cousins walking around. That's just the way things are.
I'll bet BEG is a 10th cousin of Obama. It isn't her fault and it certainly isn't newsworthy.
So, we're marrying our cousins? :o
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So, we're marrying our cousins? :o
You are if you are marrying a human.
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You are if you are marrying a human.
The upside is, I won't worry so much when I hit you guys up for cash. :-) Hey, we're family...
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The upside is, I won't worry so much when I hit you guys up for cash. :-) Hey, we're family...
Exactly! And like all good family you will understand why we want you to learn to stand on your own two feet.
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My sister said .... well Scott's last name is Brown and Obama is brown, so there's a resemblance right there. :p
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My sister said .... well Scott's last name is Brown and Obama is brown, so there's a resemblance right there. :p
I didn't know Gracie Allen was your sister. :)
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I didn't know Gracie Allen was your sister. :)
I know, it's zany! :-)
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Wasn't there something about Obama being related to another politician a few months/ a year ago?? I think it was Dick Cheney.
It was McCain.
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No, it was the Bush Family & the Cheney family.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_KJXdKMwZqBgHPdXXdGWnEP;jsessionid=927F83E8EBFEA8B0038E986AFB83D024