Obama's related to Palin

Yahoo News

NEW YORK – President Barack Obama has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes. And that's not all — Obama also is apparently related to conservative radio host and relentless critic Rush Limbaugh. A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said. "Smith was against the persecution of the Quakers," Tyler said in an interview. "He was a very socially conscious man." As for Limbaugh, he's also a 10th cousin of the president — one time removed — through a common ancestor named Richmond Terrell, who Tyler said was a large landowner in Virginia, also in the 17th century. "His history is a little more nebulous," Tyler said. How do the genealogists come up with this stuff? Tyler said they start by picking the people they're interested in, then examine their family trees, going back further and further into history, looking for common surnames and locations. In the recent project, genealogists looked at the trees of Obama, Palin, and Limbaugh but also a few others, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Fox News pundits Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. They didn't find anything much with the latter three. [Related: How to trace your family tree online] But former President George W. Bush? He's related to both Obama and Palin, the site found. Obama and Bush are 11th cousins through common ancestor Samuel Hinckley, and Bush and Palin are 10th cousins one time removed, also through Hinckley — who, and stay with us now, was John Smith's father-in-law. Ancestry.com has revealed in the past that Obama is related to investor Warren Buffett and actor Brad Pitt. It has also found that Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, is a distant cousin of both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Princess Diana. The site isn't the only source of this sort of celebrity genealogy information — in 2007, Cheney's wife, Lynne, discovered ancestral ties between former Vice President Dick Cheney and Obama while researching her book. She said the relationship was eighth cousin, though the Chicago Sun-Times traced it as ninth cousins once removed. And one other thing from Ancestry.com: It also found that Palin is distant cousins with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter, through John Lathrop, who was exiled to the United States from England for being a pastor of an illegal independent church.

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However did this little gem slip through the cracks?

The bloodline "thickens"

What say Ye?

Yep, saw it on yahoo also. When I was there, they closed the comments section, probably bc some guy commented "Illuminati" and he got way more thumbs up than he did thumbs down. Apparently, almost all of our presidents are related in some way. I say it was part of the plan, after all the constitution says only American born can run for president, and it just so happens that even though Obama wasn't born in America, he's still American blood.

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I saw just that comment and yes his comment was thumbed up in the high hundreds. A great twist is that some of us or all of us are related to them.

reply to post by Romantic_Rebel


Yep. Hey sis. ;D

reply to post by ohsnaptruth


I'm a male lol. :/
I did do a thread where we discuss our famous relatives.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Check it out!

Well I guess that means Sarah Palin is a dirty terrorist socialist commie kenyan alaskan.

reply to post by TheOneElectric


LOL - My thoughts exactly

Originally posted by Romantic_Rebel
reply to post by ohsnaptruth

 

I'm a male lol. :/
I did do a thread where we discuss our famous relatives.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Check it out!

LOL sorry about that. hey bro

will do.

Yeah, this was on the news not too long ago. Obama has about 5 or 6 Ex-Presidents in his family tree. I was convinced that there was a conspiracy here due to Obama's blood ties to Bush and Cheney, and Hilary Clinton's ties to Bush as well. But the truth is; due to some massive near-extinction level event (possibly the Black Plague), everyone on this Earth is no more than a 13th cousin away from any other person. This goes for all races and nationalities. Bush and Obama are 10th cousins. It's no real biggy.