Brangelina, meet your new cousins, Clobama. Proving again that politics makes strange bedfellows, genealogists announced Tuesday that Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, while Hillary Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie. Maybe they can all adopt a village in Cambodia. "When you get back into your ancestry, you eventually find that you're related to lots of people," said genealogist Christopher Child, who guided the presidential research for the New England Historic Genealogical Society. "Presidential candidates are no exception." The family trees of this year's White House contenders only get weirder from there, according to the study, which was based entirely on vital records kept by cities, counties and towns. 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, Child found. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six US Presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. Meanwhile, McCain is a sixth cousin of First Lady Laura Bush. 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," he said. Obama has the most prolific presidential lineage, featuring Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include <b>...</b>
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