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Barack Obama Is Related to Sarah Palin

Ancestry.com also links the president to Rush Limbaugh

By hrumble,  Newser User

Posted Oct 13, 2010 9:59 AM CDT | Promoted on Newser Oct 13, 2010 10:39 AM CDT

(User Submitted) – Ancestry.com has dug up an ironic distant relationship between President Obama and one of his foes. Two of them, actually. It turns out both Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are both 10th cousins of the president (in Limbaugh's case, once removed). Ancestry.com traced both Obama's mother and Palin's mother back to a common ancestor named John Smith, who was "a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts," reports the AP.

It's far from the first time the genealogy site has traced interesting and ironic relations: George Bush was found to be related to both Palin and Obama—the latter of whom is also linked to Warren Buffett and Brad Pitt. Go figure. Read the full article.

Obama and Palin are ... related.
Obama and Palin are ... related.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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COMMENTS
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webgrunt
Oct 14, 2010 5:01 PM CDT
He IS related to her? Damn, he just lost the last thing he had going for him...
matteo
Oct 14, 2010 9:02 AM CDT
..how horribly embarrassing that no seems to understand that ancestry is one thing while DNA is another !!
Riffran
Oct 14, 2010 3:29 AM CDT
Well that explains his sour look of late...I bet Jeremiah Wright is pissed
 

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