posted on Oct, 9 2004 @ 12:02 PM
Hi Joey and all the others concerned about the question on this thread:
The whole thing started the other day when I heard a watress at my local deli tell another waitress (in a whisper, like it was some kind of state
secret or something) to "vote for Kerry, because I hear he's Jewish..."
The other waitress said, "are you sure? I've never heard that...!" so I interrupted them and told them that Kerry's grandparents were
Czechoslovakian Jews who changed their religion to Catholicism and also changed their name from Kohn to Kerry...
And both of them said they had never heard that, and then another customer (drinking in every word) interrupted them by saying, "Yes, he's
right...but I don't know how many people know that...!"
So that was ther reason for this thread topic: in other words, would Kerry win more votes (or lose more votes) if the average "dumbed down American
voter" on the street knew his history---
Or wouldn't it matter at all?
Personally, I don't care if "Kerry's" grandfather felt the need to change religions to save himself and his family from the threat of a Pogrom
(fairly common throughout the past several centuries in Europe anyway)--I just wondered a. how well known are these facts by the general public in
the US and b. does it matter or not.
I suspect that there might be some groups who would NOT vote for Kerry because he "has [Ashkenazi] Jewish roots" and others just as vocal who
WOULD vote for Kerry simply BECAUSE he has "Jewish roots..."
But to me, I don't think a person's ancestry should be the deciding factor....but the voters in the US tend to vote with their hearts not their
heads, as most of the rest of the world will tell you !!!