John Kerry and Lee Harvey Oswald

John Kerry isn't likely to mention it on his whirlwind whining tour but he has a connection to John F. Kennedy, of a sort. You see, a cousin of John Kerry's was a close friend of Lee Harvey Oswald. This cousin frequently had Lee Harvey as a houseguest. In fact, the rifle used to kill Kennedy was stored at Kerry's cousin's house. The New York Post describes the whole thing much better,

Conspiracy theorists are buzzing about John Kerry's connection to Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination. While no one in the lunatic fringe has gone so far as to suggest Kerry helped kill Kennedy — yet — they make much of the fact that a cousin of Kerry's, Michael Paine, was a close friend of Oswald who frequently had the assassin as a house guest. Paine even stored the rifle Oswald used to shoot Kennedy at his house. Paine's mother, Ruth Forbes, and Kerry's mother, Rosemary Forbes, were cousins. It has never been fully explained how Oswald came to have such socially prominent pals, says A.J. Weberman, author of the JFK assassination book "Coup D'Etat in America," who notes that according to documents released under the JFK Documents Act, Paine's sister-in-law and father-in-law were both closely connected with the CIA. [Source]

John Kerry spent some time in Paris meeting with the communists from North Vietnam. I wonder if they did any brainwashing? Maybe John Kerry is the real manchurian candidate.

Of course, this stuff is way off the deep end, but after months of listening to Kerry and his surrogates, among them Tom Harkin who claims that God wants Kerry to win the presidency, make wild accusations about President Bush, it strikes me as kind of ironic that he would be tied to a JFK conspiracy theory.