Clinton related to Angelina Jolie; Obama to Brad Pitt

[Phillycat]

This was an interesting little geneology article. Thought it might lighten the mood a little...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_en_mo/candidates_genealogy

"Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of First Lady Laura Bush."

"Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769. Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, declined to comment on the senator's ancestry.

Clinton and Jolie are ninth cousins, twice removed, both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718."

[Muttocracy]

1. I bet most of us on DU are related if you go all the way out to 9th cousins! nt

[krawhitham]

2. So you saying crazy runs in Hillary's family