Posted on 08/14/2004 3:17:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France — Imagine the scene here a year from now if this genteel village enters U.S. history.
On Aug. 15, 2005, President John F. Kerry returns with great fanfare to St.-Briac-sur-Mer, where his parents met and where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir.
Escorted by his cousin, Mayor Brice Lalonde — a former candidate for the French presidency — Kerry leads the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Allied liberation of the village from the Nazis.
Speaking fluent French, Kerry greets crowds filling narrow lanes and a town plaza festooned with flags of both nations. Kerry announces that he has chosen this community of 2,000, a cherished refuge of his globe-trotting family since 1923, to symbolize the rapprochement of the United States and France — indeed, Europe — after years of transatlantic tension.
With less than three months to go before the election, relatives and friends of the family who remember Kerry from periodic youthful visits are rooting for him.
..........The Forbes estate became a local institution. James Forbes and his wife, Margaret Winthrop — a descendant of the first governor of Massachusetts — employed people from St. Briac to keep the vast grounds, tend the stables and cars, and help a family that grew to 11 children.
"I remember Madame Forbes: I would see her walking her dogs, two boxers, all the time," said Rene Desriac, 74, who owned a grocery and a clothing store in the cozy downtown for decades. "She was tall, imposing, elegant. John Kerry looks a lot like her side of the family."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I just ate breakfast. Now I have to clean my keyboard :(
This is nothing but the LA Times doing a... uh... well you know. They're pleasing themselves.
These article might help your breakfast digest.
The Oddest Couple and Their Hidden Agendas (John and Teresa)
Yeah, I think I'm gonna ralph.
Regards, Ivan
I'd rather not, thank you.
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*** Residents of the village where the Democrat's grandfather settled hope the candidate, if elected, will improve transatlantic ties.***
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Which of course, makes me think of this informative piece:
Kerry's World: Father Knows Best*** As early as prep school, John Kerry showed signs that he shared his father's suspicions about America's cold war foreign policy. In a debate at St. Paul's in the late '50s, he argued that the United States should establish relations with Red China. During his junior year at Yale, he won a speech prize for an oration warning, "It is the specter of Western Imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism, and thus it is self-defeating." And, when he was tapped to deliver a graduation speech in 1966, he used the occasion to condemn U.S. involvement in Vietnam, intoning, "What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism." ***
Imagine, John and Teresa could have the French White House (as their get-away place) as apposed to say, Ronald Reagan's western White House.
And, I have yet to see ANY way that a Kerry presidency (shudder) would improve our relations with other nations. I must assume (since his plans are a secret - for him to know and us to find out) that he would increase foreign aid and otherwise bribe them. We've seen (under Clinton/Albright) how well that worked in NK and elsewhere.
You've got that right!
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) pauses as he speaks during a rally in Medford, Oregon. Kerry assailed Bush's economic record contrasting it unfavorably to the boom that occurred in the 1990s under former president Bill Clinton (news - web sites) which he credited to the Democrat's policies(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)
where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir.
Yup. But I spent my childhood vacations in a $17 a week cabin in a state park for one week...and the rest of it hanging around the neighborhood.
But then we all can't be rich braggarts...
bump
What is a "Quiet" cheer?
Golly. A whole town filled with former servants. To the manor born ....
I hope Kerry remembers to toss coins to the crowd as he is carried through on his litter.
LOL
The more and more I read these little 'factoids' the more scared I become.
How could this clown get in (and be relected to) the Senate in the first place? One word: Massachusetts.
Kerry would attempt to destroy the country! Bttt
Scary.
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