[maica]

he traveled to France, where he took sculpture classes and met his wife.

His mother also has Boston Brahmin roots. His pedigree on both sides should be more widely known.

Kerry has first cousins in France (also politicians) and he spent childhood summers at an oceanfront 'cottage' there, belonging to family members. I wonder when we will be hearing about this in the lamestream media.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Cash-and-Kerry*** John Forbes Kerry was born December 11, 1943, in a hospital in Denver, Colorado, where his test-pilot father Richard had been sent to treat his tuberculosis. His mother, Rosemary, was by descent a double New England Brahmin, her father James part of the colonial Forbes family and her mother a Winthrop whose lineage included the pilgrim leader who helped establish the Congregational Church in the young Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Rosemary's Forbes family had wealth through its hereditary ownership of much of Cape Cod. Her father used his money to raise his family in France, where aspiring lawyer Richard met her during a youthful idyll. Setting a pattern his son would follow more than once, Richard did not hesitate to wed a rich girl.

In this aristocratic tradition, young John Kerry spent much of his childhood in Europe - with his family in Berlin, Oslo and St. Briac, France - and in an upper-class boarding school in Switzerland. So recounts historian Douglas Brinkley in his fawning-but-eye-opening new biography Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. Kerry grew up speaking foreign tongues and absorbing a European socialist's view of the world - and of America.***