And it's only going to get sillier over the next seven months

This whole “Barack Obama is a fresh face to American political history” meme has finally been disproven as yet another dumb liberal myth. Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society have discovered that, aside from Dick Cheney, Obama is related to six former presidents, a Tory, various Confederate racists, and Brad Pitt. It is not clear whether they are from his Kenyan side or his Muslim side. Hillary COINCIDENTALLY is related to Angelina Jolie, the pretty lady who adopts children with Brad Pitt. John McCain, meanwhile, is the son of the first dinosaur.

• Jim Newell