Posted on 09/20/2006 10:35:22 AM PDT by cutepanda
He said his grandfather's incarceration by the Germans had a profound effect on his mother; that because it was a painful memory, it was almost never discussed. "Some may find it odd that I have not probed deeply into the details of my family history, but it's a fact," Allen said in his statement. Speaking with The Times-Dispatch, Allen said the disclosure is "just an interesting nuance to my background." He added, "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch. And my mother made great pork chops."
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"HHHEEEELLLLOOOOO, MOBY!"
This guy doesn't know the rules. He intentionally is trying to make Allen look bad when the article doesn't do that at all.
I smell a troll.
George Allen isn't running around with a yarmulke on his head, or, on the othe hand, rejecting the idea that he has Jewish roots. He simply was responding to the question.
Sounds as if he's being honest about the fact that they ate pork. I'm more upset about his use of the word, 'nuance'. John Kerry claimed to be Irish for years and years because of the Ma. Irish vote. Then he suddenly discovered his grandfather was Jewish right before he started running for President. He claimed he never knew. Big fat liar.
No prob. I should have alerted the administrator myself.
Hey Webb, shouldn't you be out denigrating women and Jews rather than posting foolish threads on Free Republic?
Last I heard the Democrats were conducting a, "Are you a Jew" campaign in Virginia.
Do you guys really think that type of bigotry is going to work?
Go away.
And a relative newbie, as well.
I smell ozone...
pork and ham are not sth Jews eat. That's why i feel it's bizarre that he would volunteer such an answer.
I don't even see this as problem except to the same hypersensitive folks who were all over him about his "macaca" comment.
If you are waiting to be offended by George Allen, I'm sure ANYTHING will do.
If he is, indeed, part-Jewish, does this not innoculate him from charges of snti-Semitism? Wasn't that the whole point of Hillary finding some Jewsih ancestry?
IBTZ?
Have you noticed how NRO and The Corner are out to tear down Allen?
I am starting to become a fan of his again.
OMG, that's my cat on your Ipod. His name is Phil McCracken, and he glares at me just like that when I don't feed him right away!
I wonder if you were as offended when Hillary the Phony pretended to have Jewish roots in a pathetic attempt to pander for Jewish voters in New York as you are by George Allen appropriately defending his mother's honor and merely saying his identity now is in his Christian identity, while as he says he embraces his Jewish heritage? Somehow there's something offensive in this?
Funny isn't it a Democratic president diddling the help in the Oval Office is a "private matter," but a man's family roots and his mother are all fair game, right? I guess privacy is a right only granted based on one's party affiliation.
LOL!
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