“This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama,” Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.

Different and varied paths? Yes, but they both ended up in the same place - political animals with huge egos that believe they should lead the unwashed masses and save us from ourselves and the boogeymen.
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"I didn't care what she didn't 'low--I would boogie-woogie anyhow" John Lee Hooker