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By Mark Silva
First it was Dick Cheney.
Barack Obama's long-lost cousin.
Now it's Brad Pitt.
Another distant connection to the senator from Illinois who is running for president, according to New England genealogists.
Obama addressed the connection today, on ABC's The View.
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Comments
Where's the tape of Reverend Wright "acknowledging" the error of his ways??? I never heard or saw anything of that sort. As far as I know, Wright hasn't apologized or acknowledged ANYTHING.
What's with the Brad Pitt fluff? That ISN'T the VIEW story....
Posted by: Felicia O'Neil | March 28, 2008 2:10 PM
Another story on who Obama might be a 10th cousin of?
I can understand why the Democrats who write for the Swamp avoid writing anything substantive on Sen. Obama.
But this?
Posted by: McCainocrat | March 28, 2008 2:16 PM
This story's been around for days, and you've carried it before. Why are you trotting it out again now? Just to post another picture of the Obamessiah?
Plus, it's non-news. Each succeeding generation going back has twice as many people; you have twice as many grandparents as parents, and so on. Going forward, parents produce multiple children, so that, until recently, each succeeding generation had many more people than the generation before it. When those trends collide, it's inevitable that some unexpected relationships show up. I can count among distant cousins both presidents Bush and Calvin Coolidge, for instance. If you look far enough, everybody is related to everybody else.
Posted by: DaveB | March 28, 2008 3:41 PM
"CHERTOFF SPEAKS"
NO MORE "CONGRESSIONAL CHURN" WE GOT TO ROLL THIS REAL ID ACT OUT ASAP.
TOO MANY BLACK AMERICANS BORN BEFORE 1965 MIGHT ATTEMPT TO GO BACK TO LOUISIANA. TOO MANY WHITES BEFORE 1964 LOOKING UP THEIR ROOTS TO SEE WHO'S WHO IN THEIR DNA LIVES.
WE GOT TO GET A GRIP ON THIS, THIS ISN'T WHAT WAS SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN. WE WERE TO HAVE SEPARATE AMERICA BY NOW. 1965 TO RIGHT AND 1964 AND PRESENT TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE.
BRAD PITT, RECONGNIZING BARRACK OBAMA, WASN'T SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN.
ARE YOU SURE BARRACK OBAMA DNA WAS CORRECT. I KNOW WE WENT INTO HIS PASSPORT, BUT WE DIDN'T FIND ANY DNA HOW DID YOU!
THE REAL ID ISN'T UNTIL MAY 13TH. SO IF YOU WERE BORN BEFORE 1964, PLEASE TAKE A DNA TEST BEFORE MAY 13, OTHERWISE, YOU WILL BE PURGED IN THE SYSTEM, AND NOT EXIST.
DOGGONIT, WHO TOLD BRAD PITT, NOW THEY WILL BE FRIENDS, AND MAKE US LOOK LIKE WE WERE CAGING, DATAMINING, EAVESDROPPING OR WIRETAPPING PEOPLE TO FIND THIS STUFF OUT.
MAY 13, CONGRESS, MAY 13TH
"Z" PEOPLE. MAY 13TH.
FREDDIE KRUGER DAY IN AMERICA. BRAD, BARRACK
Posted by: Roger Morris | March 28, 2008 7:41 PM
Roger Morris...
Turn off the 'Caps Lock' take your medicine, and go to bed....you need rest.
LOWER CASE LETTERS RULE!!!!
Paulo
P.S. And what the hell you posts be talk'n about?
Posted by: Paulo | March 29, 2008 2:31 AM