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Cabal
Where's the "I don't really care" option?
An option like "I'm a Republican but don't care if Obama is a Moslem, Jew, Communist Athiest or whatever" would have brought more insight to this predominantly conservative dynamic in US politics.
But vast majority of Republicans and even Americans seem to have passionate interest in belief system of the President. Even SWC himself seems to care much about it going by past news and does not want to be seen as "serect moslem".
White House cancels Obama trip to Sikh temple over Muslim rumor concerns
October 20, 2010 3:27 PM
No, the determining factor, apparently, is the dread of White House advisers that photos would spread virally of Obama in an eastern land wearing the head covering required of all visitors to the Golden Temple.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/w...mple-over.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=867mR2ZusBw
Poll: 46% of GOP thinks Obama's Muslim
GOP Gov Candidate Fretted About Anti-Semitic Attacks Shortly Before Committing Suicide
by Tina Nguyen | 8:59 am, February 27th, 2015
A leading GOP candidate in the upcoming Missouri governor’s election was found dead in his home Thursday morning from an apparent suicide, and according to a regional paper, he claimed he’d been dogged by anti-Semitic remarks shortly before his death.
Tom Schweich, Missouri’s Republican state auditor, allegedly shot himself in the head less than a month after the election cycle began. Minutes before his death, however, he’d requested an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and according to the paper’s editorial page director Tony Messenger, he’d wanted to talk about rumors — started, he believed, by Missouri GOP chairman John Hancock — claiming he was secretly Jewish:
In several conversations via text and phone in the days leading up to Thursday morning, Schweich told Messenger that Hancock mentioned to people in passing that Schweich was Jewish. Schweich wasn’t Jewish. He was a member of the Church of St. Michael & St. George, an Episcopal congregation in Clayton.
Schweich told Messenger he believed the mentions of his faith heritage were intended to harm him politically in a gubernatorial primary in which many Republican voters are evangelical Christians. He said his grandfather was Jewish, and that he was “very proud of his connection to the Jewish faith.”
“He said his grandfather taught him to never allow any anti-Semitism go unpunished, no matter how slight,” Messenger said in a written statement.
Schweich told Messenger that he attempted to ask Sen. Roy Blunt to intervene but was unable to speak with him. Schweich said he had lunch with Blunt’s son, lobbyist Andy Blunt, according to Messenger’s account.
Hancock told reporters that while he may have mistakenly thought Schweich was Jewish at one point, he “certainly would not have said it in a derogatory manner.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-g...tting-suicide/
Jew vs. Hidden Jew: Macaca-man George Allen Eyes Va. Run
“I was raised as a Christian, and my mother was raised as a Christian,” said Allen, who is locked in an unexpectedly close race with Democrat James Webb. “And I embrace and take great pride in every aspect of my diverse heritage, including my Lumbroso family line’s Jewish heritage, which I learned about from a recent magazine article and my mother confirmed.” Later in the day, Allen’s campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, identified the article as a story by E.J. Kessler that appeared in the Forward last month. According to Wadhams, after reading the article the senator decided to ask his mother about her Jewish roots.
He didn’t explain why calling someone Jewish might be considered casting an aspersion.
Allen started the 2006 race in the spring as a hugely popular incumbent, a shoo-in for reelection and in fact a leading contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination until this happened. Now Wikipedia includes him on its list of Jewish former senators.
http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/131994/jew-vs-hidden-jew-macaca-man-george-allen-eyes-va/
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