Mar 26, 20086

We Are All Connected in the Great Circle of Life

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Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society have discovered a familial link between Hollywood and Washington — Brad Pitt is related to presidential hopeful Barack Obama, while Angelina Jolie shares a lineage with former First Lady Hillary Clinton. Well, this news ought to sway a couple of votes! Us Weekly says

Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769. Clinton and Jolie, meanwhile, are ninth cousins, twice removed because they are both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.

Interestingly, the only presidential hopeful without famous celebrity cousins was Mike Huckabee, namely because all the backwoods inbreeding really thinned out his gene pool.

6 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Stacey

    Ohhhhhhhhhhhh snap!

    Mar 26th, 2008

  2. abby

    Thanks, Stacey! I also would have accepted “BUUUUURN!”

    Mar 26th, 2008

  3. nordo

    I think there you may have missed the Rumer Willis/Huckabee connection

    Mar 26th, 2008

  4. abby

    They do share a tuber-esque countenance…

    Mar 26th, 2008

  5. sonya

    Well I for one will be happy when the antelope are eating Hillary’s body. (there’s my Lion King reference for you)

    Mar 26th, 2008

  6. curio

    why couldn’t i have fallen off a cliff and been trampled in a wildebeest stampede?

    Mar 26th, 2008

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