Yes, Barack Obama is black, but he’s really only half-black—”[my father] was black as pitch, my mother white as milk,” he says in his autobiography. I think this may make him more acceptable as a presidential candidate. It’s not strictly racism: Americans like to feel that someone is assimilating into mainstream culture before they award him with high office, they want to know that he truly cares about people other than his own tribe. Obama does not seem at all particularistic.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney is Mormon, which the Washington Monthly and New Republic say ought to disqualify him from the White House. “How Mormon are you?” a reporter once asked Romney. Maybe too Mormon, say the opinion journals. Point taken. John Kennedy needed to demonstrate that he was free of the Pope before he could be president. When Mario Cuomo was readying himself for a run, he went on and on about not cleaving to the Vatican on abortion.
And what about Jews? There’s a theory that not only the Supreme Court cost Al Gore the 2000 election, so did Joe Lieberman’s Jewishness. Gore couldn’t win his home state, Tennessee. I’m sure some of this resistance was anti-Semitism; I heard some anti-Jewish comments about Gore’s v.p. choice, Lieberman. But some of it was understandable: Lieberman is a nationalistic Jew; and I wonder “How Jewish” he is—that is to say, how he feels about his children marrying non-Jews, how important Israel would be in his foreign-policy considerations (high!). The first Jew in the White House is likely to be someone more assimilated than Lieberman, somebody intermarried, someone who makes a clear distinction between Israel’s interests and ours.
What happens when a fly falls into a coffee cup?
The Englishman -
throws the cup and walks away.
The American -
takes out the fly and drinks the coffee.
The Chinese -
eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
The Japanese -
drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra.
The Israeli -
sells the coffee to the American, the fly to the Chinese,
and buys himself a new cup of coffee.
The Palestinian -
blames the Israeli for the violent act of putting the fly in his coffee,
asks the UN for aid, takes a loan from the European Union
to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives
and then blows up the coffee house where the Englishman,
the American, the Chinese, the Japanese are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he was too aggressive.
wow. this phil weiss is a whole new kind of imbecile.
he now is telling us that the jew who is intermarried does so consciously in order to put "america first"
the ugly apostate is really way out on a limb here. is he telling us he didn't marry for love?
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/01/08/conflict_besets_andover_high/
^israel lobby helps besieged jews in Andover Mass
The Israeli steals the coffee cup from the Palestinian.
After intense pressure from the Englishman, the American, the Chinese and the Japanese, he offers to return the fly.
Right on, Ashley, right on.
How many Palestinians does it take to change a light bulb?
None, they sit in the dark and blame Israel.
Let's see… does it really matter? How Jewish someone is or how Mormon someone is has little to do with their qualifications for president. How unpopular was Lincoln before 1860? How stupid Jimmy Carter was didn't matter in 1976. Nobody complained about how sexually active Clinton was. So Romney worships a God and Clinton worships female bodies. What's the difference, eh? I guess religion is what you want it to be. Maybe the only purpose a religious label has during an election is to give people an excuse not to look at the real issues or the real qualifications. What really matters is one's ability to lead, make decisions and be confident. I guess I've changed my mind. I think I'd rather have someone who looks up to God than someone who looks down the pants of a girl. Tells me a lot about his character, and therefore his ability to make decisions and lead.