“The name of my cousin Dick Cheney will not be on the ballot.
That was really embarrassing when the news came out!
When they do these surveys, you hope you’re related to
someone cool… Dick Cheney… that was really a let down.”

– Barack Obama at a stop in Boise, Idaho, joking about a recent
story showing that he is a distant relative of current
Vice President Dick Cheney, February 2, 2008