Bush relatives back Kerry

Because blood is thinner than oil!8217;8217; That8217;s the slogan of a group of blood-related Bushies8212;second cousins, anyway8212;w...

Because blood is thinner than oil!8217;8217; That8217;s the slogan of a group of blood-related Bushies8212;second cousins, anyway8212;who are backing the Democratic ticket on a new website, BushRelativesForKerry.com.

The Bush family tree, like most, is complicated. Siblings Tracy Cannon, Hilary House, Chris House and Sheila House and another set of sibs, Henry Kimsey-House and Jeanny House, break it down like this on their site: 8216;8216;Prescott Bush is the father of George Herbert Walker Bush the former President and the grandfather of George Walker Bush. Prescott Bush had a sister, Mary Bush, who married Francis E. House Jr. All of the people on the site are the grandchildren of Mary Bush and Francis E. House Jr.8217;8217;

Okay, got that? The relatives implore: 8216;8216;Please, don8217;t vote for our cousin!8217;8217; Writing on the site, Hilary House says of Bush: 8216;8216;His economic policies have destroyed lives, and his military policies continue to result in deaths on a daily basis.8217;8217; She even went so far as to write a private letter to Kitty Kelley, saying she enjoyed her book The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, Kelley told us.

It8217;s fair, however, to point out that none of the cousins was pro-GOP to begin with. 8216;8216;As far as I know, we8217;ve always been Democrats,8217;8217; Hilary House said Friday from Seattle. The Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign is unfazed.

Spokesman Brian Jones told us: 8216;8216;They have met the President; they8217;re not particularly close. Therefore, their statements don8217;t seem particularly relevant.8217;8217; 8212; LAT-WP

FINAL BOUTS 8211; OCT 26

	nbsp;	BUSHSPEAK: Senator Kerry says that September 11 did not change him much at all, and his policies make that clear8230;The senator8217;s goal is to go back to the mind-set of the 1990s, when terrorism was seen as a nuisance, and we fought with subpoenas and a few cruise missiles8230; We know that throughout the 1990s, the terrorists were training and plotting against us. They saw our complacency as weakness8230; My outlook was changed on September 118230; I8217;ll never forget the evil of the enemy and the suffering of our people. And I remember the workers in hard hats there yelling at the top of their lungs, 8216;Whatever it takes!8217; A fellow grabbed me by the arm, and he said, 8216;Do not let me down.8217; I will never relent in defending America, whatever it takes. KERRYSPEAK: We need a president, my friends, who asks you to join together in voting not for your fears, but voting for your hopes for this country. Let me tell you, it8217;s time for us to join together to unite America, to come together around the ideals and hopes and aspirations of the American people, not the fears. This President keeps going around the country trying to scare people. He talks about only one thing; the only thing he wants to talk about is terror, the war on terror, national security. Here8217;s what we need in America: We need a President of the United States who can do more than one thing at the same time8230;We8217;re going to restore America8217;s future. This administration is stealing that future, and worse. 8212;NYT	nbsp;