Benjamin Kanne

"But it wasn´t until 1967, when he was 23, that Clark found out that Kanne was far more meaningful than most middle names: Benjamin Kanne was a Kohen, a descendant of the ancient Jewish priestly caste."

"It´s not clear why Clark told a startled room of yeshiva students in 1999, "I am the oldest son of the oldest son of the oldest son — at least five generations, and they´re all rabbis."

Clark now says that statement was the product of "bad information."

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=Clark%B4s+name+shows+lineage&intcategoryid=3


To counterbalance the backlash I am sure to get, I will post one positive link about Wesley Clark. http://www.clark04.com/americanson/
That is some infomercial :)


So, Benjamin Kanne was a lawyer, orthodox russian jew. I wonder how that knowledge will effect the decisions of Wesley Clark. He said in his beliefnet interview that he had always felt an affinity for jewish people, so it all made sense. Just thought it was an interesting thought to ponder while russia was moving it's weapons around.

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Im quite serious. Background, genetics and upbringing make you a large part of the person you are and predispose us to certain affinities. We are all guilty of them. I was just curious as to if anyone could see the russia, liberation, kosovo, jewish, etc lineage.

Also curious about why George Soros, who finances one of the think tanks that Clark sits on the board at: International Crisis Group , put 10 million into Dean.

I would think it would be quite a story, and quite an outrage, if he had. He's pledged a large amount towards defeating Bush, regardless of who the nominee is. A Novak column in the last few days said that he's now leaning towards Clark, FWIW -- perhaps not much.

Clark himself has said that his approach towards Kosovo was largely conditioned by his experience during the Rwandan genocide. He'd just taken up a job in the Pentagon as head of strategic planning (or some such) and saw that plans were being made for intervention without any political will to actually do anything -- it was just a wheel-spinning charade. He didn't want to be part of something like that again.

"On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Soros told the Washington Post that the day before he had given five million dollars to MoveOn.org to benefit Howard Dean."


5 million is still a whole lot of money.

I knew he'd given money to MoveOn, but if he did so with the justified expectation that it would "benefit Howard Dean" in any direct sense then both he and MoveOn are breaking the law big-time. You know about the $2000 limit, right? At any rate, MoveOn has not endorsed a candidate. Again, if Dean had gotten five million, ten million, any million of his campaign money from a single billionaire, it would be big news, as well as grossly illegal -- how could he claim to be the grassroots guy then?

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Oh, and the democrats arent going to play the same games rethugs do and use NGOs to sneak past government campaign finance. :rolleyes:

Do a google search on "Soros MoveOn Dean" and see just how many articles and quotes you get. Feel free to pick any of them.

They all are - really...



:)

Its fascinating.