Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can’t we all just get along? |
Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can’t we all just get along?
The Guardian
204-08-07
Forget the president’s Tea Party cousin or Washington animosity. My research shows that we’re all part of one big family. A dysfunctional one, but still – come on, cousins!
It’s been a tough week for the Obama family.
On Tuesday night, Barack Obama’s second cousin – a radiologist named Milton Wolf – lost the closer-than-expected Republican primary for US Senate in Kansas. Wolf and Obama share a relatively recent ancestor, a 19th century farm laborer named Thomas McCurry. Barack leaned left, Milton leaned right – he was a Tea Party candidate who believed his second cousin was “destroying America”. But still, they are, officially, kin.
So now Barack Obama is deprived of having a cousin in the US Senate.
Or is he?…
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Tags: A. J. Jacobs, The Guardian