I just wanted to post the link to the Wikipedia entry for John Kerry. He's actually led a fascinating life.

I didn't know that "John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade". (At least he wasn't a friend of the Nazis - just a drugrunner). Isn't it funny how the two Massachusetts senators come from families that made their money from drugrunning and bootlegging?

I also thought that the references to Kerry's being French were totally facetious.

Kerry says his first memory is from age three, of holding his crying mother's hand while they walked through the broken glass and rubble of her childhood home in Saint-Briac, France. The family estate, known as Les Essarts, had been occupied and used as a Nazi headquarters during the war. When the Germans fled, they bombed Les Essarts and burnt it down.

And I guess he didn't think joining the military was such a good idea at first - his French roots were calling:

After an application for a 12-month deferment to study in Paris was denied, Kerry joined the United States Navy on February 18, 1966.

Did you know that his taste for wealthy, well-connected women runs this deep?

In 1962, Kerry volunteered for Edward Kennedy's first Senatorial campaign. That summer, he began dating Janet Jennings Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister. Auchincloss invited Kerry to visit her family's estate, Hammersmith Farm in Rhode Island. It was there that Kerry met President Kennedy for the first time.

Or that:

In 2003, John Kerry was diagnosed with and successfully treated for prostate cancer.

Wow. I can't believe we don't hear more about this as a heroic struggle as opposed to getting a couple of band-aids and stitches in Vietnam. Cancer is life-threatening.