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To: stockman_scott who wrote (2934)	10/17/2007 12:28:11 AM
From: zeta1961	Respond to of 149317

And he does his homework on Guiliani too.. From NBC's Mark Murray Lots of campaign rebuttals out there to comments rivals made today... -- To Giuliani saying that Obama is "not Ronald Reagan" for wanting meet with unsavory world leaders like Hugo Chavez, Obama spokesman Bill Burton told First Read: "While Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton do not think we should engage in the type of strong diplomacy practiced by Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy, Obama does. And given the hefty fee that Hugo Chavez's oil company paid Rudy Giuliani's firm, he apparently thinks we shouldn't talk to Chavez, but it's fine to take his money."

To: stockman_scott who wrote (2934)	10/17/2007 9:32:54 AM
From: zeta1961	Respond to of 149317

The Obama-Cheney Connection..Obama, whose mother was white, did not immediately comment on the revelation. But his campaign made light of the tie, without confirming it. "Obviously, Dick Cheney is the black sheep of the family," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. Obama and Cheney, Making Connections Vice President Cheney is related to Sen. Barack Obama. At least that was the stunning announcement made yesterday by Lynne Cheney, who said that the very white vice president from Wyoming is in fact the eighth cousin of Obama, the Senate's only African American member. She said she discovered the link, traced back to a Huguenot who figured prominently in Maryland history, while researching her latest book. "This is such an amazing story," Cheney said in an interview on MSNBC, "that one ancestor, a man that came to Maryland, could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick's and Barack Obama's." Cristina Allegretti, Lynne Cheney's research and project manager at the American Enterprise Institute, said the vice president's wife did an exhaustive genealogical search of her family while working on "Blue Skies, No Fences." Her research led her to an early Cheney settler named Richard Cheney, whose granddaughter married Samuel Duvall, whose mother, Mareen Duvall, is distantly related to Obama. Lynne Cheney read a story that said Obama wa s related to Mareen Duvall, and realized the link. Obama, whose mother was white, did not immediately comment on the revelation. But his campaign made light of the tie, without confirming it. "Obviously, Dick Cheney is the black sheep of the family," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. washingtonpost.com