George Allen......Senator and Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party

"I still had a ham sandwich for lunch. And my mother made great pork chops." ---- Virginia Sen. Allen, after confirming that part of his maternal ancestry is Jewish.

----- From Newsweek, 10/2/06. The Senator expressed his awe-some sense of humor (and racial sensitivity) to the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week. Allen's maternal grandparents were Jewish.


"When Allen angrily told a reporter during a debate last week that she was 'making aspersions about people because of their religious beliefs,' as if Jewish roots were something to be ashamed of, he seemed out of control."

----- Also from this week's Newsweek, in Jonathan Alter's column.


"High school classmates rrecall that before a basketball game against a black team, he and friends secretly scrawled anti-white racial slurs on their school building, in an attempt to build resentment toward the black players."

----- Again, from Alter.


RE the "macaca" incident:
"First he said he didn't know what the word meant, then that he made it up from the word "Mohawk", and, most recently, that it's Italian for "buffoon. His insistence that he never heard the word growing up (backed last week by his mother) doesn't sound credible, given that the slur was common in the colonial Tunisian community in which she was raised.
------ Alter's column.


The smell of smoke is wafting throughout the man's campaign.