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John Kerry's anti-American foreign policy views apparently began long before he served in Vietnam.

Kerry's biographer, Douglas Brinkley, told Franklin Foer in The New Republic, "So much of his foreign policy worldview comes straight from Richard Kerry," John Kerry's father.

Foer notes how John Kerry's father sent him to a Swiss boarding school (that explains a lot) and never visited him. Discussions about foreign policy were apparently the only subject about which the two could converse. "It allowed them to break through an emotional wall," Brinkley says. "They talked about foreign policy the way most fathers and sons talk about football."

Former Kerry aid Jonathan Winer notes, "I saw two people talking about policy very seriously with unexpressed affection."

Richard Kerry, a veteran of the Foreign Service, published his views on foreign policy - criticizing America and its national character - in a book titled "The Star-Spangled Mirror" in 1990, at the age of 75.

The elder Kerry wrote that America's "fatal error" was "propagating democracy" and succumbing to "the siren's song of promoting human rights."

Richard Kerry lambastes the U.S. in his book for "lecturing" America's allies in Europe "about the horrors of communism."

"When Kerry refused to speak out against the government [while in uniform], suddenly his father felt like he was being a wimp," says Brinkley. "[So he] encouraged his son to take off the uniform and to become a critic."

Foer observes that Kerry's greater concerns for Europe over the U.S. "aren't just deeply felt; they're in his blood."

So, basically, John Kerry wanted his daddy's attention his whole life so he patterned himself after the father who didn't care about him then, married some wealthy woman with a powerful family to further his ambitions, had kids, divorced her...probably felt like a failure but then saw an opportunity to cash in on a wealthy political widow who had many connections so he could impress daddy even more....then, runs for president on his father's wishes and beliefs. No wonder JFKerry is 'off'...he has never had an original idea in his life. His entire life is not even his own! He truly is sKerry!!!!