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Whopper of the Week: John Kerry
Did he pretend to be Irish?
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| March 7, 2003
| Timothy Noah
Posted on 01/22/2004 2:08:48 PM PST by Hon
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To: antaresequity
" Kerry is a Viet Nam vet? I thought he was Italian "
Washington Post,June 1,2003 Page A01 Puff Piece on Senator Poufy Hair
" It wasn't enough that John's pet parakeet could say," Hello,". He taught it to squawk in Italian and French."
To: Hon
That's it. I was close, though, wasn't I?
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:38:27 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Hon
A Jewish Frenchman would not be voted Senator in Mass.
To: SouthernFreebird
As a Kelly, I'll drink to that.
To: mabelkitty
I think you are right. And I think that is why Kerry only "admitted" this when he decided to seek higher office.
Like I said, his whole career has been like this. When he first ran for Congress, he ran as a war hero--but that didn't go over too well in MA in the early 70s.
So he changed his tune and became against the war.
It's as obvious as it is pathetic.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:45:15 PM PST
by
Hon
To: mabelkitty
(Gen.) Clark's 1/2 Jewish. Interesting days.
He discussed this last night.
46
posted on
01/22/2004 3:48:27 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(I argue as passionately on FR against ILLEGAL ALIENS as I would if Gore, not Bush were President.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Yeah, like Kerry, Clark discovered he was Jewish when he decided to run for the Presidency:
"Wes Discovers Jewish Roots
September 22, 2003
Guess what? This whole thing is getting out of hand. From the Jewish Times, headline, "Wesley Clark's Jewish Roots." I kid you not.
"Raised a Southern Baptist who later converted to Roman Catholicism, Gen. Wesley Clark knew just what to say when he strode into a Brooklyn yeshiva in 1999, ostensibly to discuss his leadership of NATO's victory in Yugoslavia.
"'I feel a tremendous amount in common with you,' the uniformed four-star general told the stunned roomful of students. 'I am the oldest son, of the oldest son, of the oldest son -- at least five generations, and they were all rabbis.'
"Clark's Jewish father, Benjamin Kanne, died when he was 4, but he has kept in touch with his father's family since his 20s, when he rediscovered his Jewish roots. He is close to a first cousin, Barry Kanne, who heads a pager company in Georgia."
Is it almost predictable now that every Democrat of prominence is going to find Jewish roots in their past? Remember Madeleine Albright? John Kerry all of a sudden found out that somewhere deep, dark in the bowels of his family is a Jewish relative. And even Hillary found some Jewish relationship way, way, way back. Some ancestor was a distant cousin to Moses or some such thing.
What do these people think of the Jewish community? It's a total pander. It never ends. Soon, they are going to find that they've got some black relatives. They'll dig up relatives to match whatever minority happens to be ruling the roost at the time. If it happens to be one-armed amputees from Bosnia, General Wesley Clark will find out he's got some relationship to one-armed amputees from Bosnia. Why have we never heard of Wesley Clark's Jewish roots until he became a presidential candidate? Am I being cynical? You're damn right I am, folks - and happily so."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092203/content/stack_b.guest.html
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:52:29 PM PST
by
Hon
To: All
Say, do Lieberman, Kanne (Clark) and Kohn (Kelly) complain about those damn Neo-Cons (Jews) running the GOP too?
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:56:16 PM PST
by
Hon
To: Hon
Yep.
To: Hon
I don't think there's any question that he pretended to be Irish in order to get votes. It would be interesting to see how many Irish votes he will lose now the truth is out. I think the Irish are a lot like Jews in their voting preference for their ethnic comrades.
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posted on
01/22/2004 5:32:03 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: Hon; backhoe
Another one for your archives!
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posted on
02/17/2004 6:58:42 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: All
St. Patrick's Day bump!
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posted on
03/17/2004 5:51:11 AM PST
by
Hon
To: BenLurkin
A potato and a six pack of Guiness?
To: Hon
Context: Kerry never delivered the statement orally. He claimed that his staff wrote it and, without showing it to him, submitted it to the Congressional Record to commemorate St. Patrick's Day. I wonder if any of his other acts as a Senator (like some of his votes) will turn out to have been done by his staff without his knowledge. Maybe that is why he didn't know which way he voted when he tried to answer that Castro question in Florida. Way to take responsibility, Senator Kerry! Maybe when he was talking about those "lying, crooked" people, he was complaining about his staff? Or maybe his staff talked to some foreign leaders who assured them that Senator Kerry was in fact Irish. Could have happened to anybody!
To: Prince Charles
HUGE shane macgowan bump...
To: martin gibson
That's one of my favorite CDs -- along with "Irish Heartbeat" by Van Morrison and The Chieftains.
Slainte!
To: GraceCoolidge
"I wonder if any of his other acts as a Senator (like some of his votes) will turn out to have been done by his staff without his knowledge. Maybe that is why he didn't know which way he voted when he tried to answer that Castro question in Florida. Way to take responsibility, Senator Kerry!"
I think Kerry just votes the way Ted Kennedy tells him to. Kerry's been working for him since he was 14, you know.
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posted on
03/17/2004 8:18:23 AM PST
by
Hon
To: Hon
I'm sure his muslim roots will come out soon too.
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posted on
03/17/2004 8:19:15 AM PST
by
Trillian
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