Joe Lieberman on the Gore Separation

Generations ago changing one's name was common among Jews.  When Milton Shapiro was starting out in the TV antenna business years ago, he would make business calls and he noticed that if he gave the name Shapiro to the secretary, the person Shapiro was calling would never call back.  Then he changed his name to Shapp -- Milton Shapp -- and he wound up being elected Pennsylvania's first Jewish governor.  Jews learned that a little subterfuge could be good for business.  The late Senator Barry Goldwater, on the other hand, kept his name but changed his religion.  I suppose one could call that the road less taken.  I think that even if he had changed his name, he still wouldn't have gotten elected president in 1964.  Lyndon Johnson was on a roll that year.

In the year 2000 Al Gore was nominated on the Democratic ticket for President of the United States.  He picked Joe Lieberman, formerly a Democrat and currently Senator from Connecticut, as his vice Presidential running mate.  Lieberman was recently asked to comment on the decision by Al and Tipper Gore to separate after 40 years of marriage.  Lieberman said, with artful humor: "I kept my wife, but I changed my party.  It worked for me."  Maybe Al Gore should think about that.  Maybe Al Gore should become a Republican but keep his wife.  Did you ever think of doing that, Mr. Vice President?

Al Gore should contact Elizabeth Taylor's divorce lawyer, Arlene Colman-Schwimmer.  That's actually a career in itself, working as Elizabeth Taylor's divorce lawyer.  Ask John Warner--one of Taylor's former husbands, and a lawyer in his own right.  Elizabeth Taylor has Arlene Colman-Schwimmer on retainer.  Taylor's one of the few people who keeps a divorce lawyer on retainer -- as Taylor says, "just in case."  Taylor converted to Judaism.  She can say things like that.  As Jews like to say, "You never know."

Arlene Colman-Schwimmer is the mother of the actor, David Schwimmer who portrayed the character Ross on the popular TV sit-com Friends a few years back.  Did you know that David Schwimmer was a victim of anti-Semitism when he was a kid?  I always thought anti-Semitism was something that ended in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945.  Not so.  That's just one more lie the anti-Semites would have us believe.  "Anti-Semitism?  Nobody's anti-Semitic anymore.  What are you talking about?"  The fact is some people still hate the Jews.  Some people even hate half-Jews -- usually concealing their animus with the observation, "but he's not even Jewish.  He must be paranoid."  Could it be that in the age of the half-Jew, which is already upon us, the term paranoid will be the code word for Jew?

Be that as it may.

I wonder if our friends ever talked to David Schwimmer.  You never know.  Of course, I'm just a paranoid half-Jew.

On the issue of names changes:
http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2009/10/dream-of-four-miltons.html