Posted on 10/29/2004 6:28:59 PM PDT by aculeus
Knocking John Kerry's Gallic roots could be a thing of the past for George W Bush's camp after a claim that the president, too, is descended from the people his supporters call "cheese-eating surrender monkeys".
French historians believe that Bush is a corruption of the name Boucher (butcher).
The apparent connection was uncovered by a reporter on Le Figaro in a book on French America, Histoire de l'Amerique Française.
The paper suggested that was why the president's official biographers never traced the family tree beyond 1850.
"Perhaps that is the moment when the Boucher of the old world became the Bush of the new?" Le Figaro said.
Americanising French surnames was commonplace in the early 1800s. Desrochers, became Stone and Auclair became O'Clair. Yesterday Le Figaro revelled in its discovery, suggesting that it could tip the election in Mr Kerry's favour.
"With a name like Boucher, Mr Bush may even lose the vegetarian vote," it said. Such is the climate of American francophobia after France's opposition to the Iraq invasion that any mention of the F-word could be damaging.
Mr Kerry has played down the fact that he has a French cousin, Brice Lalonde, who was the environment minister in Franois Mitterrand's government. He has been urged not to give interviews to US newspapers.
When questioned about Mr Kerry's Gallic ties, White House officials came up with the worst insult they could think of. "He looks French," they said.
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The French should shut up and bathe more often.
LOL this is a stretch
This clown obviously has no understanding of genealogy.
The left will stop at nothing to smear President Bush! Now the ultimate insult....gasp...he might have a drop of French blood???? Yeah, right. He's about as French as Uncle Sam.
It could just as easily have been an English surname, or perhaps an anglicization of the German "Busch", but given GHWB's New England antecedents, I would bet the former.
RAT desperation adds a special scent to the air, don't you think? Why, suddenly, it's taking on a holiday feel...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
Here comes victory.
Rats out of the House,
the Senate free of those louse,
and Bush still in the White House in DC!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
don't forget this part:
If you don't vote for the GOP
You'll be voting Osama, see,
deep down in your heart!
And shave armpits.
His name could really be....BUSH! If it was changed, it was more likely to be formerly Busch.
LOL. Yeah, I can see that too.
"DAMMIT, Martha, either way we get a Frenchy...I guess we'll HAVE to vote for Kerry now!"
I believe that french is a corruption of "lying illegitimate offspring of back stabbing weasel and cheese eating surrender monkey."
BTW the Bush family tree does trace back to England. Sorry
busch is a german name. my money says gwb once had an ancestor named "busch" who was german
American historians believe that "French" is a corruption of " F%$#ing wench" ( a girl who serves beer to the Germans)
LOL!!
It is a stretch but let's say they were correct that in the distant past, they can link a member of the Bush family to French blood.
What of it?
The sting of the comment isn't found in blood, but in attitude and practice.
Bush could never be "French", he is a full red blooded American. Kerry is a blue blooded elistist effete girlie man. In short, he fits right in with the French.
It is interesting that we have yet another example of how Bush has the left on Defense. They are forced to deride what they typically exalt, recognizing Americans have more in common with Bush's take on the world and expression than they do with Kerry and the Left of the world.
So let me get this straight. The French now claim that both candidates are of French descent? They are totally self absorbed aren't they? Pathetic
I know mine traces back to England, or rather, Britain. Ethnically speaking, I'm more British than Queen Elizabeth.
As for tracing back the family tree past 1850, if you don't have personal historical family records, it gets tough going past 1850, because from the first federal census (1790) up to 1840, only the heads of households were named in the census, everybody else was just lumped into groups and numbered. Not that you don't know this, but other people might not...I suspect the French don't know it.
This is the lowest form of political mudslinging I've ever witnessed!
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