Posted on 03/29/2008 4:29:21 PM PDT by george76
Oops.
” Obama said he didn’t know about those things until they were recently reported in the press...”
It’s an expression which would generally be taken (by a Jewish audience at least) to mean “at the very last minute” — either figuratively or literally.
It MAY have been used by the Rev. Wright because of the perceived ethnicity of the reporter and/or the fact that it WAS (we are told by others) Friday evening and, inasmuch as he was at an interfaith event, he MIGHT have been in a place where he could not have conveniently or appropriately received a telephone call during the Jewish Sabbath (”Shabbos”). (Sabbath-observant Jews do not use telephones from Friday before sundown until well after sunset Saturday night, and their guests would, if polite, follow that custom if in their home or in a synagogue or similar building.) In such a situation, the Rev. Wright might remember the conversation with such associations because of a need to finish up the call and make additional arrangments quickly before the telephone became off-limits, or perhaps before services started or dinner was served, etc.
What expression is that?
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