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Originally posted by marcu5
Pretty much, they're both related too -- nobody has mentioned that.
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Kerry, Bush and Cheney are cousins
Bush and Kerry aren't just "blood brothers" in Skull and Bones -- they are allegedly distant cousins, too. (How many people can trace THEIR ancestry back to the 1600s? Unless your ancestors were nobility, it is unlikely that you can identify your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.)
John Forbes Kerry and George Walker Bush are ninth cousins, twice removed. See this website
http://www.familyforest.com/Kerry_Bush_Cousins.html for family ties between Kerry, the Bushes and previous US presidents. It suggests that we have an American nobility similar to European aristocracy, something that we are taught does not exist in this country.
Bush is also the 9th cousin of John Hinckley, Jr., who was accused of shooting Ronald Wilson Reagan in 1981. (The Hinckley and Bush families were business partners in Texas - see
http://www.nathanielblumberg.com/neil.htm for the connections between the Hinckley and Bush families) Kerry is Hickley's 10th cousin, once removed - and there are no known business ties between the Kerry and Hinckley clans.