Old story. Kerry has been extra vigilant for a long time not to give anyone the wrong impression of his ancestry.
"Kerry has been extra vigilant for a long time not to give anyone the wrong impression of his ancestry."
LOL
"Kerry's campaign has pointed to a 1993 interview with television host John McLaughlin, to buttress the assertion that the senator has been clear about lacking Irish ancestry. However, even those remarks are not precise.
When McLaughlin asked Kerry if he has Irish ancestry, the senator responded, ''No. I'm a mixture.'' McLaughlin then asked, ''Well, your father's Irish. Right?'' and Kerry answered ''No. My father came from Austria.'' But when McLaughlin pressed him, saying ''Does your father have some Irish in him?'' Kerry answered: ''I don't know the answer to that. We're looking and I don't know.''
http://vietpage.com/archive_news/politics/2003/Mar/6/0147.html And even this he screwed up. His father wasn't from Austria--his grandfather, Kohn, was.