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[MADem]

92. I don't think he meant to exclude "the Jewish."

That was the point of my post.

I think he meant to exclude bookish, academic-looking types. People who don't look like they slopped hogs, baled hay, played football, or did the lindy hop at the sock hop. Sen. Sanders does look like he could play the mean law professor Charles Kingsfield in a revival of The Paper Chase and he might even be appropriately cast as the lead in an American version of Goodbye Mr. Chips, but he does not convey an impression of "vigor" and that is what the term "All American" implies. It doesn't imply that one is from the "wrong" ethnic background, because "All Americans" --particularly in the context of sports -- are quite often immigrants. The dictionary definition leans heavily on sports imagery to define the term, in actual fact. There are a load of Jewish "All American" types--Senator Sanders is just not one of them.

As someone who is all-too-familiar with discrimination on a first-hand basis, I tend to know it when I see it. I just don't see any intent in those remarks--certainly not of the POINT-POINT-Oh-He's-Jewish!!!! variety.