There is a difference
Obama: "This one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my ________ ."
I am confident the New York Times reporter thought he was doing BO a favor.
The pillars of Habonim Dror North America are:
* Cultural Judaism
* Progressive Labor Zionism
* Actualization (Hagshama)
* Social Justice
* Socialism
http://www.habonimdror.org/about/aims.html
“Ron Bloom: Car czar in the Labor Zionist tradition”
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/25/1007434/ron-bloom-car-czar-in-the-labor-zionist-tradition/CP2
So, this is not a big deal then?