Quote Originally Posted by Gumby
did you know Kerry and Bush were cousins?? and both were in the Skulls... that's why he got the nomination... not cause everyone thought he was a douche.... no one thought he would win...

Kerry's as bad as Bush and I think that's what a lot of people realized... it is sad that money is the only thing you need to get a chance to be president...
Kerry is about as close a "cousin" to Bush as millions of Americans, including myself, are to Bush. I share several common ancestors with Bush, including Mayflower passengers John Howland, (his wife) Elizabeth Tilley, and her parents. I am Bush's 9th cousin, 3X removed - which is equivalent to a 12th cousin. Kerry, I believe, is Bush's 10th or 11th cousin. I also have other colonial ancestors in common with Bush, as do millions of others in this country. It is believed that nobody that has roots far back in England can be anything less than a 25th cousin to any other person that has roots going back many generations. The gene pool in Colonial New England was much smaller, hence more relationships.

Kerry's genealogy, which did not show Mayflower ancestry, was done by professionals a couple of years ago when he was a contender for the presidency, and I'm sure that his distant relation to Bush was as much as surprise to him as mine was to me, when I traced it. It's really not relevant or of any use at all - just interesting to know about.

I also share common Mayflower ancestry with Ulysses Grant, FDR, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. First American in space, fifth man to walk on the moon (first to golf on the moon.), Alec Baldwin (and brother Stephen), Humphrey Bogart, Richard Gere, Joseph Smith. Mormon founder and leader, .Ralph Waldo Emerson. Richard Nixon, President Gerald Ford, and Winston Churchill are descendants of brothers of Mayflower passenger John Howland - which also qualifies me as their relative since the Howland brothers had the same father.
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