Religion has a lot to do with politics. Many politicians follow their religious beliefs when excecuting their responsibilities in elected office. Knowing what those beliefs are, and knowing how closely the candidate follows the tenets that he or she espouses is a very important gauge to measure a candidate. Do they follow blindly? Do their actions follow their words? Are they a little rebelious? Are they vocal? What do they hold dear? What are their personal convictions. I get a lot of information about a candidate from these observations. More than any other single point of reference.
If you are hinting, instead, that asking if he is Jewish is intended to sway the voting public from voting for him due to anti-sematism, then you should just come out and say that. We should stop pussy-footing around these issues. They ain't never going to get better if we don't talk about them out loud, in my opinion. On 9/20/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does his religion have to do with politics? Bottom line. > > And he did tell her to sit down and shut up. He used political speech to do > it. > > > > If he had been asked that question before this question, and denied > > it, wouldn't it be fair game in your book? (It would be in mine). If > > it was a question out-of-the-blue, then he should have told her to sit > > down and shut up. > > > > If he had no problem sharing the fact that he had been raised > > Christian, why then suddenly is the other question out-of-bounds? Is > > it the Jewish-ness of the question that is the issue for him (and for > > you), or the fact that such a personal question (religion of > > grandfather) was asked at all? And did he ask the questioner why she > > wanted to know? For what purpose did it matter? THAT is a question I > > want answered (more than the one she posed). > > > > If he refused to answer ANY questions on the subject, then he would at > > least show consistancy, and I'd applaud him. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:215736 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
