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Sen. Kerry Finds Grandfather Was Jewish
NY Times ^
| 2/3/03
Posted on 02/03/2003 1:52:26 PM PST by areafiftyone
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To: Cacophonous
And anyway, we've already had our first African-American I thought he was our first Black president?
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:10:28 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: Zathras
Grandpa Munster was Jewish? You must be kidding. Is the Pope Catholic?
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:13:24 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: Miss Marple
He's probably gonna find close relatives who were Black, Hispanic, Oriental, Middle European, and South Pacific Islander as the 2004 election approaches.
To: areafiftyone
I dunno. I still think there's a "Seperated at birth" thing going on here, but it doesn't involve being Jewish.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:20:57 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
([Formerly: Yakboy] Democrat.. Socialist..Commie..Traitor...Who can tell the difference?)
To: All
I guess this means old munster will have to be circumcised now. I suggest they start with his big old monstrous forehead!
From now on, we will know why he wears those neckties!
To: catch
www.sillyglobe.comThanks. Went there. Interesting. "Voyage of self discovery". LOL!
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:23:47 PM PST
by
elbucko
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To: areafiftyone
What a convenient "discovery" just in time for the battle for Jewish primary voters.
To: Miss Marple
However, I am Senator Kerry's age and have known this for over 30 years, because we were working on our family ancestry. Senato Kerry is not talking about his great-grandfather, but his GRANDFATHER. One would think he would have had a bit of curiosity before now.I'm about that same age. In some of these cases, it's hard. I read that his grandfather committed suicide at such an early age and it makes me think a lot was hidden. Was there a surrogate in there?
Another factor is that a lot of families weren't exactly proud of the circumstances that got their families here. Being Jewish would've been a real negative in some environments, probably until the '60s...it's a fact that might have disappeared, just as criminal or war backgrounds do.
Meanwhile, I have to say Senator Kerry has done a nice job, with what sounds like a humble background, to service in Viet Nam, to being Mr. Heinz.
I don't dislike him or his views as much as I did during the Kosovo bombing, when he was spouting the Clinton line. It seemed hypocritical for the founder of VietNam Veterans Against the War to support that outrage. He's doing better with the issues, and his office has improved greatly at listening to constituents.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:43:23 PM PST
by
grania
("Won't get fooled again")
To: grania
I don't trust him, and anything he is spouting now is simply to get the electorate on his side.
To: areafiftyone
Sen. Kerry Finds Grandfather Was Jewish So what? Is Jewish money that important? Why doesn't he just run as an American? This is pathetic...shades of hillary the grunt, who did the same thing. These jerks are SUCH losers.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:48:14 PM PST
by
Republic
(tommy daschle is a WEASEL OF MASS DISTORTION (tractorman)-so truthful, it almost HURTS!)
To: angelo
Since this Kerry's paternal grandfather, then Gundacker is 1,000% wrong. Kerry wouldn't be considered Jewish . . . .I think that the article is referring to Kerry's grandfather when it says "Gundacker said he is '1,000 percent certain' that Kerry was born to a Jewish family."
In other words, you are right about John Kerry, but Gundacker is right about Frederick Kerry.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:55:15 PM PST
by
kalt
To: Williams
Everything about this guy stinks of flouting your family name and connections as far as they'll go.
And flaunting, too. Yes, the circle representing liberal Democrats lies almost entirely within the circle of rank opportunists.
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posted on
02/03/2003 3:55:31 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: areafiftyone
LOL - can you envision him in a Yarlmuke, with all that designer hair???
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:02:27 PM PST
by
mombonn
(The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. GWB)
To: areafiftyone
How convenient!
To: mountaineer
It looks like he's had a nose job somewhere along the way, esp. across the bridge of the nose.
To: areafiftyone
Doesn't this mean that he has to start acting jewish now? And not being pro-abortion, pro-hippie, etc?
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:20:26 PM PST
by
Marines981
("Rattle the big dogs cage and get your a** bit")
To: Howlin
The F. is for his mother's maiden name: Forbes. The Forbeses are old Boston sailing and railroading money -- no relation to Malcolm Forbes of New York. They own Naushon island in Buzzard's Bay and are related to other old rich Boston families. The JFK initials, and Kerry's ambiguous status as a hanger-on among the very rich, probably stimulated his excessive ambition.
It was always known that Kerry was half Boston Brahmin. Otherwise, Boston's ethnic politicians would have been asking just what kind of Irish-American he was. One opponent did make a point of always emphasizing the "Forbes" in Kerry's name to emphasize that he wasn't a real Irishman. It would have been regarded as ugly if he'd thrown in the name "Kohn" with the same emphasis.
Kerry always allowed himself to be taken for Irish. I'd imagine that he won a lot of votes that way. Last year Teddy Kennedy was plugging for Shannon O'Brien, the Democratic candidate for governor, on the grounds that you couldn't find a more Irish name than hers. But she still lost, to Romney, whom Kennedy had smeared for his Mormonism in an earlier election.
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:23:15 PM PST
by
x
To: mountaineer
To: Republic
Apparently according to the state the Jewish vote is important Lieberman may have competition.
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:27:41 PM PST
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
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