[Aristotelian]

[Dahoser]

For a veteran war hero staking his presidential campaign on military credentials, an ancestral link to a warrior who overcame the English to reclaim Scottish independence in 1314 has obvious appeal.

To whom, Arlen Spector?

[Ben Bolt]

If the lead traitor ever had a pair of balls he has long , long lost them .

Durie also found other inaccuracies in extracts from the McCain memoir.

How suprised am I ?

[BluH2o]

Robert the Bruce was "an absolute scoundrel".
"He changed sides five times and would have ended up making Scotland a vassal nation to the English if Edward I had supported his claim to the throne.

Sounds like a McCain to me ...

[Eva]

Errors in genealogy are very common. Much of the research depends on the memory of the oldest members of a family. I’m no McCain fan, but this is a little silly.

[Young Werther]

Geez, Louise! How many times does McCain have to be shot down!

[decimon]

Maybe it was Bruce the Robert.

[plain talk]

well here is one way he might be able to find out - DNA project.

http://www.brucefamily.com/gene.htm

[saganite]

Who cares about who your relatives were 400 years ago? What a pile of crap.

[epow]

My genealogy research turned up an English ancestor who immigrated to the Jamestown settlement in 1611, would that make me a good President?

Probably not, since he returned to his wife and young son in England 2 or 4 years later, depending on which records you read, and left no trace of what became of them after that.

[calex59]

I think every descendant of scot ancestry hears that they are related to Robert Bruce. My mother and Uncles used to tell us all that we were related to the Bruce, but I seriously doubt that. I am sure some of the scots who migrated here to escape English prosecution(some of the hardest fighters during the revolutionary war, BTW)were related but you would have to dig into your family tree deeply in order to find out. I think it was a point of honor for descendants of scot families to claim this relationship,but we can't all be related to him!

[E. Cartman]

Of all the claims in support of John McCain's bid for the White House, perhaps none is quite as grand as this. As he arrived in London today, the publishers of his new book insisted the Republican senator's family was descended from the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.

Hell. He claims to be a conservative, so why shouldn't he claim to be descended from Robert the Bruce?

[humblegunner]

insisted the Republican senator's family was descended from the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.

The Bruce was an ass anyway.