"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.
The story is OLD. Jeez, you cite a 1993 story to refute my contention that it's old? Guess what? 1993 was over TEN YEARS AGO!
Criminee.
And by the way my original post was only meant to point out that the story at the top of the thread is OLD. It was posted on FR last year.