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MSNBC reports that Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, revealed Tuesday that her husband and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois — who wants to be the nation’s first black president — are eighth cousins. She said she discovered the two were related while researching her ancestry for her latest book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” a memoir about growing up in Wyoming. “Every family has a black sheep,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton told The Associated Press.