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Allen's roots
Tweet Share on Facebook September 22, 2006 CommentI don't know what it is about these politicians, but when you get them off message it's as if they lose their ability to reason and speak. Take Sen. George Allen. Asked about his Jewish heritage (admittedly, in a debate setting, which was not the place to do it), all he could say was that it's important not to make "aspersions about people because of their religious beliefs." Unfortunately for Allen, no one was making aspersions. Is being Jewish (or the fact that your mother is Jewish) an aspersion? Hardly.
Gloria Borger, a contributing editor at U.S.News & World Report, writes the magazine's On Politics column. Borger is also the national political correspondent for CBS and a regular panelist on the PBS public affairs program, Washington Week in Review. Borger is a 1974 graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and is now a member of the university's board of trustees.