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This week researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates. You are not going to believe this, but I think Hillary would be better off trying out for American Idol than for the 2008 presidency! Researchers discoverd that Obama and George W. Bush are infact related and are 10th cousins. They are linked by Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod who died in 1662.

Here is the break down:

McCain

Laura Bush

Obama

George W. Bush - 10th cousins
George H.W. Bush
Gerald Ford
Lyndon Johnson
Harry S. Truman
James Madison
Dick Cheney
Sir Winston Churchill
Robert E. Lee

Hillary Clinton

Angelina Jolie
Madonna
Celine Dion
Alanis Morissette
Jack Kerouac
Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles