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Does any one know about Kerry's cousin in the French Government? Any comment or answer will be welcome

<p>Today's lull in the presidential campaign affords us an opportunity to look at the latest developments in the weird postwar debate over Iraq, in which certain American and British politicians and journalists, for reasons of partisanship, ideology or self-aggrandizement, have for months been trying to transform victory over Saddam Hussein into defeat for America and its allies.</p>

NOW that John Kerry has lost the election, his French politician cousin can come out of hiding. Kerry's cousin Brice Lalonde, mayor of a French town who once ran for president of France, was shunned by Kerry's family during the election, reports the National Review online. "When Lalonde traveled to support his cousin at the Democratic National Convention in August, many of his relatives were horrified," NR reports. "One part of the family refused to speak French with me and wanted me to hide," Lalonde is quoted as saying. "I really sensed the anti-French feeling during the convention.

According to an Agence France-Presse article titled French town turns eyes to American cousin - John Kerry: "SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France (AFP)...The mayor's automobile has a Kerry bumper sticker, which is hardly surprising in view of the fact that the mayor, Brice Lalonde, is Kerry's cousin. Kerry and Lalonde, France's former environment minister are the sons of sisters from the wealthy American Forbes family. A large property here called 'Les Essarts' has belonged to the family since the beginning of the last century. Kerry's mother was one of 11 siblings who spent much of her youth at this estate and Kerry, who...

Amelia Gentleman, an employee of the Guardian, went to Britney to spend some time with John Kerry's French cousin, Brice Lalonde. Perhaps not surprisingly, she reports, M. Lalonde, once an unsuccessful candidate for president of France and currently the mayor of a small seaside resort where Kerry keeps a fancy estate and pays French people to keep the garden and clean the toilets, is a recent victim of "extremely painful" humiliation… -snip- It's possible Cousin Brice might have sensed "extremely painful" anti-French feelings even at the Republican convention if he had gone — although chances are, he would have been...

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...

RELATIONSHIP John Kerry's French Connection By Dale HurdCBN News Sr. Reporter June 1, 2004 When Kerry got into the race in 2003, the automatic assumption in the pundit class and among anyone who hadn't studied his background thoroughly, was that the man is Irish. CBN.com – SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France -- This is Kerry Country. No, it is not Massachusetts. And it is not Ireland. It is Brittany, on the coast of France, where John Forbes Kerry's French roots go through this pretty seaside village called Saint Briac-by-the-Sea. It was here in 1908 that the wealthy Forbes family came over from England...