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2003-02-14 10:48 | User Profile
[url=http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/12/170236]Gary Hart Worried About Dual Loyalties of Jews . . . or Irish and Cubans?[/url]
ABC's "The Note" reports that for the second day in a row, former Senator Gary Hart gave a speech in the San Francisco Bay Area in which he said, "We must not let our role in the world be dictated by Americans who too often find it hard to distinguish their loyalties to their original homelands from their loyalties to America and its national interests."
Wondering just what the potential presidential candidate meant, and who he was targeting, "The Note" and others who still remember Pat Buchanan's talk of "New York bankers" asked him to clarify his remarks. Was he talking about Jewish supporters of Israel?
So after he finished his speech at the Stanford Law School yesterday, reporters "waited patiently to ask him to whom or to what he is referring in talking about Americans with allegedly divided loyalties."
Hart was naturally reluctant to cite any specific examples at first, "The Note" reported, but when pressed offered up Irish Americans and Cuban Americans as two of many examples of lobbying groups who exercise disproportionate power, sometimes, in his view, skewing U.S. policy.
All of which led "The Note" to note: "Which is not nearly as controversial as what we had guessed he meant. And actually might be a pretty intellectually appealing point to some, although it might not help carry Florida in the general election."