The curse of a golden tongue

Jewish World Review ^ | Wesley Pruden

[SaraJohnson]

Some of Barack Obama's best friends are Jews. He says so himself. (Who knew?) The Poles, not so much.

Mr. Obama is afflicted with golden tongue disease (croesus tungitus, but not in medical dictionaries), which is common to those with an eloquent tongue, particularly if the tongue is forked and bleeds around the edges. The tongue is sometimes off and running before the brain is fully engaged. In the president's case, the disease is probably terminal.

The president and his croesus tungitus have had a rough week. First he offended the Polish government with a reference to "Polish death camps" instead of saying "Nazi death camps in Poland." Then he offended facts, reality and 20 American Conservative rabbis with his assertions that he is, too, a good friend of Israel, because he knows more about Judaism than any president before him. Besides, some of his best friends are Jews.