He was only joking, but Illinois Sen. Barack Obama said if he were dressing up for Halloween, he might go as his distant cousin ,Vice President Dick Cheney. Obama made the remarks to Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show, which aired Monday. DeGeneres wanted to know how Obama discovered he and Cheney are eighth cousins. Obama said a genealogist made the discovery.
“We tried to keep it hidden,” Obama quipped, adding there was a risk to learning family history. He would have preferred to be related to Cleopatra, he said.
