Genealogists call Bush and Kerry kin

[ringmastery]

http://starbulletin.com/2004/02/16/news/story3.html

Bruce and Kristine Harrison, publishers of historical databases, traced back the family histories of Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry.

The result? They're cousins.

Well, 16th cousins, three times removed, to be exact. But cousins, nonetheless.

Truth be told, one might find such distant family ties between Bush and any of the four other major Democratic candidates.

The link between the president and the Rev. Al Sharpton might date back a bit further, Bruce Harrison said, but tracing ancestries helps illuminate a greater message on human interconnectedness, if not one on the centrification of the nation's politics.

"I believe everybody on the planet is related if you go back far enough," said Harrison, 51, whose Millisecond Publishing in Waimea on the Big Island puts out a line of ancestral history CDs. He and his wife have spent the last eight years compiling information from hundreds of genealogical books and periodicals. "We're setting the stage for others to explore their curiosity," he said.

[molly]

1. There is another post here already

hey - I must be related to everyone on this board!

[Maddy McCall]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=342980

[Moderator]

4. Dupe- Locking

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=342980

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[RedEarth]

3. The Bush family got the defective genes....

the kind of genes that causes one to lie and steal from the taxpayers. The kind of genes that makes you swagger and smirk and make you cold-hearted and ruthless.

Scientist feel they are close to finding a cure for this defect, since they were able to clone some bull shit and identify the defective Bush gene. They feel it's only a matter of time until this stink is erased from the world