Posted on 12/14/2009 10:29:20 AM PST by Baladas
Just because no one is too worried about gate crashers showing up at the White House Hanukkah party doesn't mean the guest list isn't being watched very carefully.
The annual celebration has grown in recent years into an important bellwether in American Jewish circles, a sign of which leaders are in good graces and who is losing clout. So the Obama administration's announcement that it was cutting the size of the Dec. 16 party by more than a third has left many wondering who will make the cut, and what some might do to get their name added to the (shrunken) list.
"There's a lot of emotions involved and a lot of heavy lobbying, and I'm sure they're having even more heavy lobbying than we had," says Tevi Troy, a former Bush White House domestic policy adviser and liaison to the Jewish community.
Troy has done the math. Obama garnered about 75 percent of the Jewish vote last year, which by extension means there could be three times as many Jews who would like an invitation to his Hanukkah party than there were for the Bush administration's. But a White House official said that about 500 people are invited to this year's event, a significant drop from last year's crowd. As many as 800 received
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I agree.
Sure, but we’re NEVER supposed to bring that up at all.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
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