This is an article on the Jewish thing.
There is one thing that stands in stark contrast for me regarding Kerry v Bush. Both men come from privilege but Kerry acts like he knows this whereas Bush acts like it is a mantle from g_d. I like rich guys that know they need accomplishments rather than just money and family.
The story of his family is a little bit of a metaphor for the history of the 20th century. It doesn't make Kerry the messiah but it does show that he can see the world in complicated ways. More complicated than, "You are either for us or against us."
http://www.uahc.org/rjmag/03fall/kerry.shtmlI will put in a bit of the article to tease thee:
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The story begins in the hamlet of Horni Benesov on the tenth of May 1873--the day Benedikt and Mathilde Kohn had a son they named Fritz.
Like his father, Fritz became a simple brewer. Yet it was difficult for him to succeed in an area dominated by German-speaking Catholics. Many Jews hid their religious identity, posing as Gentiles. "It was easier to do business as a Christian," says Prague-based genealogist Julius Miller, who specializes in tracing Jewish lineage. "Many Jews just stopped practicing Judaism during this period and had no belief at all."
On March 17, 1902, shortly before his 30th birthday, Fritz took his wife Ida and infant son Erich to a government office in Vienna and changed their family name. Fritz Kohn would henceforth be known as Frederick Kerry.
The Kerry family settled for three years in Austria before embarking on the steamship Konigen Luise in Genoa, Italy on May 4, 1905, bound for America. The two-masted, twin-screw "Barbarosa"-class ship was configured to carry nearly 2,000 passengers in steerage, about 150 in first class, and 140 in second. According to the ship's manifest, the Kerrys traveled in first class with only twenty-nine other passengers--French, American, and Swiss families with decidedly Anglican names like Hale, Walker, and Bridgeman.
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YANG (the sound my head makes when the little one speaks)