Hiya Cuz!
Ah, the oh-so delicious irony of it all. This is why I love America.
That's right folks, Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins. Eighth cousins, granted, but still cousins nonetheless. Naturally, this immediately led to all sorts of silliness over the fact that Obama is black and, shockingly, Dick Cheney is white. At least NPR did point out the irony that many black families appear to hide the white roots in their tree in much the same way that white families try to hide the black roots in their trees. For Bog's sake people, grow up! I would've thought that Star Trek had long ago pointed out how silly all this blathering about skin color was.
As long as we're on pop culture references, this brings to mind the constant references to Cheney's apparent resemblance to a particularly famous evil sidekick. Now that we've got the family relationship, all sorts of possibilities come up...
Okay, I'm done now.
But doesn't this point out exactly what is so great about the United States? Two men, so different in both their world view and in their appearance, are actually cousins? How can any unyielding, stereotyping, prejudice-filled, evil soul continue to stand in the face of flat out proof that America is the great leveler? That at the end of the day the one who seemed to be our greatest enemy is, in fact, our cousin?
That's right folks, Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins. Eighth cousins, granted, but still cousins nonetheless. Naturally, this immediately led to all sorts of silliness over the fact that Obama is black and, shockingly, Dick Cheney is white. At least NPR did point out the irony that many black families appear to hide the white roots in their tree in much the same way that white families try to hide the black roots in their trees. For Bog's sake people, grow up! I would've thought that Star Trek had long ago pointed out how silly all this blathering about skin color was.
As long as we're on pop culture references, this brings to mind the constant references to Cheney's apparent resemblance to a particularly famous evil sidekick. Now that we've got the family relationship, all sorts of possibilities come up...
Okay, I'm done now.But doesn't this point out exactly what is so great about the United States? Two men, so different in both their world view and in their appearance, are actually cousins? How can any unyielding, stereotyping, prejudice-filled, evil soul continue to stand in the face of flat out proof that America is the great leveler? That at the end of the day the one who seemed to be our greatest enemy is, in fact, our cousin?
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Speaking of Cheney: did you see that Onion article about Cheney's new heart implant?