President Obama and Senator Brown are (distant) cousins.

[Unspeaked]

LINK (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/01/29/all-in-the-family-obama-related-to-scott-brown/)

All in the Family: Obama Related to Scott Brown

By Susan Davis

President Barack Obama can add a new name to the list of things he calls Scott Brown: cousin.

Genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society said today that the president and the Republican senator-elect from Massachusetts are 10th cousins. Obama’s mother and Brown’s mother are both descendents of Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass., who died in 1687...

[yg17]

Small world....IIRC, Obama and Darth Cheney are also distant cousins.

[Rt&Dzine]

10th cousins? That is distant.

[Shivetya]

10th cousins? That is distant.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

[Counterfit]

Pff, that's nothing. My common ancestor with JFK at least died in this century. :rolleyes: I think...

[Thomas Veil]

Brown's family may be from Massachusetts, but he himself was born in Kenya. I have the birth certificate!

(I got it from Kevin Bacon.)

[opinioncircle]

I am still puzzled over what relevance such news has...I mean, I'm sure it has or will make headline news at some point.

[mkrishnan]

I am still puzzled over what relevance such news has...I mean, I'm sure it has or will make headline news at some point.

It doesn't ... it's a puff piece.

Well, so then Obama and Brown have two things in common at least, being on the relatively short-list of US politicians who look good topless. :p

[Rt&Dzine]

Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

In light of the birthers' "controversy," it's kind of interesting that Obama's roots in this country go back to the 1600s.