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The Atlantic's Goldberg: Obama 'most Jewish president' we've ever had

https://twitter.com/LeighPatrick/status/314396890810707971

First gay president? Check. First female president? Check. Time for the trifecta — courtesy of Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg:

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No, really:

“I think what many Israelis don’t understand is that Obama, from one angle of approach, is probably the most Jewish president the United States has ever had. When he ran for Congress against an ex-Black Panther candidate, he was accused of being the candidate of the Jewish community. He has been influenced by Reform rabbis and liberal Jewish lawyers and his intellectual influences include many Jews, both people he met at Harvard and in Chicago and writers he admires. In a certain way, he could be placed in the spiritual and moral mainstream of American liberal Judaism.

See? Some of the president’s best friends are Jewish!

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Um, Jeffrey, that sort of claptrap may fly with Chuck Schumer, but we’re not buying it.

https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/314395976381132800

https://twitter.com/sarainitaly/status/314397786042925056

Heh.

Oy vey.

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