I'm apparently related to Barack Obama. At least, according to a distant relative who recently brought a genealogy study to a family reunion. I didn't see the specifics, but if you go back far enough (six generations, to his great great great grandparents) Obama's family on his mother's side hails from the same areas of Tennessee and Kentucky where my family (on my mother's side) is from.

Who knows, maybe we can convince our new-found cousin to host the next reunion on the lawn of the White House? But there's also a downside: This may mean I'm also somehow related to Dick Cheney.