"Former French environment minister Brice Lalonde on Wednesday said he was backing his first cousin US Senator John Kerry in his bid to take the Democratic presidential nomination."
heh. That figures. :-) I bet most people still think Kerry is of Irish descent, though he's not. Here's a bit of background:
His mother, Rosemary Forbes Kerry, a descendent of the aristocratic Boston Forbes family, died a year ago in November after a lingering illness. His father, Richard, the American-born son of Austrian immigrants, was a foreign-service officer who was stationed during Kerry’s childhood in Oslo and Berlin. John, the second of four children, grew up in a family with a distinguished pedigree, a dwindling fortune, and a wealth of overseas experience. When Kerry refers to his childhood in speeches, he often says, “I rode my bike as a 12-year-old around East Berlin,” past Hitler’s bombed-out headquarters—a stark contrast to John Edwards’s small-town-son-of-a-mill-worker life story.
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