Posted on 09/24/2008 3:28:57 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
In an interview with CNN's Larry King airing tonight, Bill Clinton offered a slightly unusual reason for postponing his campaigning for Obama: The Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which he's not known to observe.
"When [the Clinton Global Initiative] is over, and after the Jewish holidays, which follow close on it, I intend to go to Florida, to Ohio, to northeast Pennsylvania, and to Nevada at a minimum," he said. "I may do events in Arkansas depending on what the Democratic Party does down there. And I've agreed to do some fundraising for them in California and New York."
"Are you kind of feeling Jewish that you're waiting until after the Jewish holidays?" King asked, according to a CNN transcript.
"No. But I think it would be -- if we're trying to win in Florida, it may be that," Clinton began, before discussing his real Florida target: "You know, they think that because of who I am and where my politic[al] base has traditionally been, they may want me to go sort of hustle up what Lawton Chiles used to call the 'cracker vote' there."
"But Senator Obama also has a big stake in doing well in the Jewish community in Florida, where Hillary did very well and where I did very well. And I just think respecting the holidays is a good thing to do," he said.
Correction: Bill Clinton is the first black Jewish president.
:o/
The clintons trying to stay out of the mess called 0bamama
“Correction: Bill Clinton is the first black Jewish president.”
So Bill Clinton is really Sammy Davis Jr.?
I hope he is planning on respecting Sukkos as well, which is Oct. 13-22.
Bubba and Sammy Davis, Jr.
brothers - separated at birth
I hope he is planning on respecting Sukkos as well, which is Oct. 13-22.
Yes, and also Samhain (Halloween to the rest of us),
which as the Pagan New Year is an important holiday to the Democrats’ pivotal Wiccan vote!
A black Jew hustling up the cracker vote?
I thought Sammy Davis was dead.
Bill thanks you for the idea, now he won’t be able to campaign for Obama till late October.
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maybe he's Whoopi Goldberg...
The term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida from the northern parts of the United States, and Latin America, in the 20th century, “Florida Cracker” is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations; and/or that they were born and raised in the state of Florida. It is considered a source of pride to be descended from “frontier people who did not just live but flourished in a time before air conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screens.”[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker
Just saying...I’m a 7th Generation Floridian, and “cracker” is not a derrogative term to a native Floridian. Lawton Chiles often referred to himself as a “cracker,” as do many Florida natives. Here’s a little history on the term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker
Well brush my teeth and call me 'Pearly', Billy Bubba is on our side!
Okay all you Florida crackers, get in line to vote for Obama!. LOL, all the Dems need is for Billy Bubba to get Monica Lewinsky to join him in his campaign efforts. :D
I have to admit I wasn’t really focused on the cracker comment. I just thought it was funny that Clintoon says he’s taking off for the Jewish holidays.
Hey, Bill got famous by screwing around with a Jewish girl, so why shouldn’t he try to con us again?
We “Jewish crackers’ aren’t as dumb as he thinks. We remember his Suka-kissing wife Hillary, and Bill’s embrace of terrorist Yassir Arafat.
The man does have “chutzpah) for trying to scam us again, but many of us are much wiser now.
I’ll take Palin The Impaler of Democrats over Bill the Impaler (and you know who he impaled, if only with a cigar).
Bill, stay out of my Sukkah, my house, and away from my daughter.
Former President Bill Clinton says that during his presidency, he would have been ready to "grab a rifle" and fight in the trenches if Iraq or Iran had invaded Israel."The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die," Mr. Clinton told the crowd at a fund-raising event for a Toronto Jewish charity.
BTW, hope you have a joyful Sukkos.
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