Now this is interesting. According to the Canadian Press, Obama is a distant relative of Brad Pitt, while Hillary Clinton is a distant relative of Alanis Morissette, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Celine Dion.
Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates – Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.
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 Laura Bush, wife of the current president.
A jagged little pill, that is…
Meanwhile, the Franken-Coleman senate race is heating up.
“If the partisan disease is what’s tearing Washington apart, for years he was part of that,” said Coleman, who officially launches his campaign Wednesday. “The talk radio culture, the Rush Limbaughs, the Ann Coulters, the Al Frankens. If that’s the disease, I’ve tried to be the cure to that disease for a long time.”
Coleman said Franken wouldn’t be able to “work across the aisle with people he has so ridiculed and so debased.”
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