I believe that John F. Kennedy, when delivering a speech to the German people during the time of the Berlin blockade, said, "Ich bin ein Berliner."

I do not think he intended it to be interpreted as "I am not an American citizen and, therefore, am not legally qualified to be President of the United States because I am actually German. I was born in the city of Berlin."

That isn't quite what he said, nor is it what he meant. Nor, for that matter, was it a slip of the tongue.

Some folks, with a predisposed and dearly held set of beliefs, in order to support those beliefs, will pounce on any insignificant little snippet like a rabid pit-bull on a pork chop.

Delusional, really. What circumscribed and mean-spirited little lives they lead!

Don Firth