Report: 'Bush the Decider' related to 'Vlad the Impaler'

[RamboLiberal]

Following the revelation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush are distant relations, the New York Post decided to report on some of Bush's other relatives.

Most of Bush's ancestors came to America in colonial times, and through them he -- like tens of thousands of other Americans -- is related to a large number of earlier presidents, as well as to both Dick Cheney and John Kerry.

Bush also turns out to be related to Vlad the Impaler -- the medieval tyrant who was one of the inspirations for the fictional Count Dracula. Some critics might say that Bush has certain things in common with Vlad, who is still honored by many Romanians for having saved their country from invasion by the Muslim Ottoman Turks. Vlad was a paranoid and bloodthirsty despot, however, who ruled through torture and murder.

According to Crime Library, "During his tenure, he killed by the droves, impaling on a forest of spikes around his castle thousands of subjects who he saw as either traitors, would-be traitors or enemies to the security of Romania and the Roman Catholic Church. Sometimes, he slew merely to show other possible insurgents and criminals just what their fate would be if they became troublesome. A pamphlet published in Nuremburg, Germany, immediately following his death in 1476, tells of his burning beggars after allowing them free food at his court. 'He felt they were eating the people's food for nothing, and could not repay it,' the broadside explains."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CBS_Bush_distant_relation_of_Vlad_1029.html

I'd have bet more on Cheney being related to Vlad.

[Demeter]

1. No Surprise There.

[IDemo]

2. Definite argument for behavior as a genetic trait

[IDemo]

3. Vlad responds: "Every family has a black sheep."

[Junkdrawer]

7. LOL

:rofl:

[Bitwit1234]

4. I am not the least surprised. This turd in the Whitehorse

had to have some thing in his background that was inherited that loved torture and murder. He also must get some of the bloodthirsty beliefs from that mother of his, she is just as bad.

[SteelPenguin]

5. It wouldn't surprise me if many of the posters here also were

That's the cool thing about our families. Go back far enough and we're descended from pretty much everyone. Your, yes you....you reading this now....your ancestors and relatives founded the Roman republic, invaded Greece with the Persian army, were close friends with Buddha, helped build Angkor Wat, chisled the rock to make the Easter Island monuments, and more most likely.

It makes a funny sound bite, but go back far enough and pretty much everyone is also related to Vlad the Impaler, Ghengis Khan, and the Emperor Nero one way or another.

[L. Coyote]

6. They should research how many Bush relatives were killed by TX death penalty

Counting back 9 generations produces a lot of relatives, and all their descendants are cousins, of course, so this was a furtive story, at best. Why not tell us how many ninth cousins are convicted murderers, for example. That might be more useful info about Bush and Cheney!

Count 10 generations back, to about 1750, and you have 1,024 ancestors in that generation. How many offspring do they have?
Count 20 generations back, to about 1500, and you have 1,048,576, 40 generations and it is 1,099 trillion!!

http://jqjacobs.net/anthro/ancestors.html