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This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.

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
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W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.

"You'd think with all that singing talent in the family she'd be able to carry a tune," Clinton's senior adviser Philippe Reines said. "But now it makes much more sense how she snagged a Grammy."

Clinton won for best spoken word Grammy in 1997 for "It Takes a Village." Obama also won a Grammy in that category this year for the audio version of his book, "The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream."

Genealogist Christopher Child said that while the candidates often focus on pointing out differences between them, their ancestry shows they are more alike than they think.

"It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn't necessarily expect," Child said.

Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.

Obama often jokes about his cousin Cheney at campaign appearances.

"His kinships are across the political spectrum," Child said.

Child has spent the last three years tracing the candidates' genealogy, along with senior research scholar Gary Boyd Roberts, author of the 1989 book, "Ancestors of American Presidents."

Clinton's distant cousins include beatnik author Jack Kerouac and Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles of England.

McCain's ancestry was more difficult to trace because records on his relatives were not as complete as records for the families of Obama and Clinton, Child said.

Obama and President Bush are 10th cousins, once removed, linked by Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662.

Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769. Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, declined to comment on the senator's ancestry.

Clinton and Jolie are ninth cousins, twice removed, both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded in 1845, is the oldest and largest nonprofit genealogical organization in the country.

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  • I think it means Bush gave herpes to his wife while, at the same time Hillary likes black guys.. I could be wrong.

  • you already lost your freedom and most of you are already dead...its too late to do anything..their plan has already been implimented....and soon all will feel the wrath of fema.

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  • @Spliff1337 i am strongly agnostic now..i was exposed to some things from a senior mason friend, i made connections from his info which basically blew my brain apart...now im ok but i've never looked at life or reality the same since..

  • @vincent4500

    Try being atheist. It just might suit you better

  • @KavonVa I don't think so. We can make a change by our vote or need be, overthrow the government. Remember, less than 1% of this nation owns 90% of America's wealth but 90% of Americans own guns.

  • i didnt see anything in that video ...but i will allways say thank god the killer george bush is not in office!!!!!! comments?

  • attractwealth is a government agent.

  • that video wasn't very informative in my opinion.....

  • @justbernard why ask that question? do you think hes talking about monkeys? i don't have to tell you what he means hopefully after 2 years your smart enough to figure this one out

  • @vincent4500

    ring frei

  • @xCaTaStRoPhIcA basically, he said other stuff...Da Vinci Code is a Freemasonic philosophy going back with them 100s of yrs....demotes christ to just a 'man'...he was proud of its fame via Dan Brown...he told me other shit which when i researched it pointed me to the fact that whatever these guys are doing it is EVIL...and it is a NWO facist evil rule....could be biblical, could be interdimensional beings, or superior knowledge mafia for 1000#s yrs...whatever, we're f-d!!!so i just live my life

  • @xCaTaStRoPhIcA ...he said that Lucifer is the GAOTU..great architect of the universe, who takes pride of reverence/place in their lodges....He said 'but lucifer is Good not bad'..how did he iknow this ?? because his superiors told him so, so must be true...lol! He then mentioned the NWO, he said the NWO and the Illuminati are actually 'misunderstand' by the silly masses..illuminati are high Masons who deserve respect & the NWO is about using science etc..to imporve man against christianity etc.

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