http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101602362.html?nav=rss_print/a
Wednesday, October 17, 2007; Page A06
Washington Post
Anne E. Kornblut
Vice President Cheney is related to Sen. Barack Obama.
At least that was the stunning announcement made yesterday by Lynne
Cheney, who said that the very white vice president from Wyoming is in
fact the eighth cousin of Obama, the Senate's only African American
member. She said she discovered the link, traced back to a Huguenot who
figured prominently in Maryland history, while researching her latest
book....the vice president's wife did an exhaustive
genealogical search of her family while working on "Blue Skies, No
Fences." Her research led her to an early Cheney settler named Richard
Cheney, whose granddaughter married Samuel Duvall, whose mother, Mareen
Duvall, is distantly related to Obama. Lynne Cheney read a story that
said Obama was related to Mareen Duvall, and realized the link.
Obama, whose mother was white, did not immediately comment on the
revelation. But his campaign made light of the tie, without confirming
it. "Obviously, Dick Cheney is the black sheep of the family," Obama
spokesman Bill Burton said.