[aft_lizard]

If you have family dating to colonial times chances are you are related to others who can date that far. I am related to Bush through the Bollings, who happened to be a most fertile family.

[deadrock]

W is a class act, but lets drop the rose colored glasses act.

[smoothsailing]

The Bush family is related to Obama, they are cousins 11 times removed.

Heck, we're probably all cousins 11 times removed. Or maybe even 10.

[txrangerette]

Uh, no, we’re not under a family dynasty even if several leading politicians are distant cousins. Being somebody’s 11th cousin does not a dynasty make.

The worst dynasty we are under is that of a ruling elite. It wouldn’t matter if none of them were related, or if all of them were distant cousins. The problem is that the little people in America have been taken over by a distant elite that is running roughshod over “we the people”.

[deadrock]

Sorry, meant that for other Bush thread.

[andyk]

Hope you’re wearing your nomex suit.

GW moved us closer to the left and closer to totalitarianism. Wish I could take back my first vote for him.

[Vince Ferrer]

The Bush family is related to Obama, they are cousins 11 times removed.

You can be related to anyone on Earth at around 40th cousin, so 11th cousin isn't impressive.

[highball]

I certainly miss having a President I can respect and admire without holding my hands over my eyes. Former President George W. Bush turns 67 today!

What could the second sentence possibly have to do with the first?

You'd have to ignore a whole lotta the last decade, from Chief Justice Roberts to expanding Medicare to the immigration debacle to the cronyism to "compassionate conservative" to showing Obama you don't actually have to enforce laws to... well, to any number of things, really, if you wanted to "respect" George W. Bush.

[piytar]

11?! Seriously?! That is an extraordinarily distant relationship.

Pick two random people on the street. They’re typically at most 7 times removed.

[WilliamIII]

We have Obama as president because voters were reacting to the disastrous presidency of Bush.

[freekitty]

Oh Geez, we have George Walton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in our family.

[arthurus]

I do not desire Bush back- any Bush. We would not be any better off with Bush now than we are with the kenyan. Bush would get more of hiss own brand of socialism through the Congress than the kenyan is getting and the logic of the situation and his previous Acts suggests he would have given us full on Single Payer Bushcare by now.

[amnestynone]

It is a family dynasty. All Presidents except for one(Van Buren) are descended from King John of the Magna Carta Robin Hood fame.

[Vaduz]

Certain organizations have already selected the next president we just don’t know it yet.
Don’t know what organizations but bet you have to be a made man to know.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

As near as I can tell I’m not related to any of them and damn sure wouldn’t admit it if I was.