Obama? Palin? Bush? Limbaugh? All distant relations?

[Martimus]

Yikes! Time for me to move to Bora Bora...

Obama and Palin: Cousins? - NATASHA LENNARD | POLITICO CLICK

Obama and Palin: Cousins?
By: Natasha Lennard
October 13, 2010 04:27 AM EST Updated: October 13, 2010 07:31 AM EST
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[Isthmus]

Great so now there scientific eveidence for what most already guessed, politicians are largely inbred.

 

[travelingfool]

John Smith? Really? Boy, that really narrows things down.

 

[ntrddragn]

are we talking about John Smith the explorer in the 1600? Or the John Smith that in the Mormon Bible? or this John Smith

 

[mpw]

Isn't Obama the only POTUS that isn't related to another former POTUS? Sure I saw that somewhere.

 

[Isthmus]

Isn't Obama the only POTUS that isn't related to another former POTUS? Sure I saw that somewhere.

Obama is related to the following US Presidents on his mother's side of the family:

• James Madison (Third cousin, nine times removed);
• Lyndon Johnson (Fourth cousin, three times removed);
• Harry Truman (Seventh cousin, three times removed);
• Jimmy Carter (Eighth cousin, twice removed);
• Gerald Ford & George H.W. Bush (Tenth cousins, once removed); &
• George W. Bush (Tenth cousin, twice removed).