George Allen is such a silly fool.  

Macaca controversy

Main article: Virginia United States Senate election, 2006 - Macaca controversy

On Friday, August 11, 2006, at a campaign stop in Breaks, Virginia, near the Kentucky border, Allen twice used the word "macaca" to refer to S.R. Sidarth, who was filming the event as a "tracker" for the opposing Webb campaign. Sidarth is of Indian ancestry, but was born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia. "Macaca" is considered a racial slur in francophone African nations, which led to speculation that Allen may have heard the epithet from his mother, a Francophone who grew up in French-colonial Tunisia.

[edit] Mother's religious and ethnic background

In the wake of the Macaca controversy, the Jewish periodical The Forward reported that in all likelihood, Allen's mother Etty Allen, neé Henrietta Lumbroso, was Jewish "from the august Sephardic Jewish Lumbroso family,"^[3] and that therefore by the Jewish legal rule of matrilineal descent, Allen himself would be considered Jewish. Although no mention is made of her mother's religion in Allen's sister's book, she does mention that the Catholic Church, before marrying the couple, required Allen's parents to agree that any children would be raised Catholic, and as a result they decided to be married by a justice of the peace in the home of a Jewish friend.^[3]

At a debate on September 18, 2006 during which Allen mentioned that his grandfather was a Holocaust survivor, WUSA-TV reporter Peggy Fox followed up by asking Allen "It has been reported that your grandfather Felix, whom you were given your middle name for, was Jewish. Could you please tell us whether your forebears include Jews and, if so, at which point Jewish identity might have ended?"^[61] Washington Post political writer Dana Milbank described Allen as "recoiling as if he had been struck," and "furiously" answering: "Why is that relevant—my religion, Jim's religion or the religious beliefs of anyone out there?"^[62] Allen also said that Fox was "making aspersions about people because of their religious beliefs;" Jewish leaders were divided over whether the characterization "aspersions" meant that Allen was ashamed of his Jewish ancestry. ^[63]

Previously, Allen defended himself against charges of racism related to the "macaca" incident by noting that his mother's father "was incarcerated by the Nazis in World War II," implying that that was an incident of racism from which he had learned it was wrong, an assertion he repeated again after the debate.^[62]

The next day – September 19, 2006 – Allen issued a statement to The Forward confirming his mother's Jewish ancestry. The statement read:

I was raised as a Christian and my mother was raised as a Christian. And I embrace and take great pride in every aspect of my diverse heritage, including my Lumbroso family line's Jewish heritage, which I learned about from a recent magazine article and my mother confirmed.[64]

All information from wikipedia. But wait theres more about his college days!!!!

[edit] Allegations of Allen's use of racial slur in college

On September 24, 2006, Salon.com Washington correspondent Michael Scherer reported that the magazine had interviewed nineteen of his teammates and that "[t]hree former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used the racial epithet "nigger" and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s."^[67] However, seven teammates have stated they do not recall any racist behavior on Allen's part. Four of these have made statements that were released by the Allen campaign.^[68]

Dr. Ken Shelton, a radiologist in Hendersonville, North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback, said "Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" and that Allen "used the N-word on a regular basis back then."^[67]

Two other sources reportedly confirmed the claims, including a third teammate contacted separately who "said he too remembers Allen using the word 'nigger,' though he said he could not recall a specific conversation in which Allen used the term" but that his "impression of [Allen] was that he was a racist."^[67] Shelton also said Allen "gave him the nickname 'Wizard,' because he shared a last name with Robert Shelton, who served in the 1960s as the imperial wizard of the United Klans of America, a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.^[67] Several other teammates recalled the 'Wizard' nickname differently, saying that Shelton earned it for his ability to catch seemingly uncatchable passes. Joe Gieck, 35-year trainer for the University of Virginia football team, recalled that "Ken Shelton got the 'Wizard' nickname for his pass catching ability and before George Allen came to the University of Virginia."

Allen dismissed the claims as "ludicrously false,"^[69] citing rebuttals by four other teammates. Critics contended that those teammates may have been biased and in any case did not directly rebut the accusations.^[70] Virginia-based pundit Larry Sabato, an Allen classmate at the University of Virginia, weighed in on the controversy on the September 25 edition of Hardball, saying: "the fact is, [Allen] did use the n-word, whether he's denying it now or not. He did use it."^[71][72] Prof. Sabato subsequently conceded that he had not actually heard these words from Sen. Allen.

Allen seems racist to me, and he expects after all this stuff floating around people are gonna vote for him? Republicians are getting a run for their money now. Democrats dont even have to try to ruin them, you got Foley hitting on 16 year old pages and that weird dude from Homeland Security and you got good ol' Allen, but dont worry the democrats are stupid too!