“The President will be taking the day to spend at High Holy Day services”

September 6, 2007 6 Comments »

Many people I have spoken with over the years have all had the same feeling about having a Jewish President. I always thought that Jews would LOVE to have a fellow brother in the Oval. But more often then not I have found that people want that high office as Goyish as possible. I have also found that most of the people of the opinion that Jews should not be in obvious positions of power are from the baby boomer generation, those only one step removed from the Holocaust.

But this is what I think, if France can have a Jewish President why can’t the US? Granted the press down plays the President of Frances Jewish side, and hide his wife who has a much stronger Jewish identity, but it is still the fact of the mater.

I think of this because I have been reading Mayer Bloomberg’s web site ( MikeBloomberg.com ), and can’t help but think “is he the next Thomson?” He claims he is not….however his chief of staff is known to be more forth coming with the possibility of the run. Of course this may all just be to keep people interested in what he has to say so that he wont live out the rest of his term as Mayer as a lame duck. I mean you can only tell people to get up early and move their cars out of the snow so many times before people stop listening to you.

But what if he does run? And what if he just makes more sense, and spends more money (he spent 100 million in his last Mayoral bid, John Kairy spent 90 million in his presidential) and dazzles more people to win? What now? Now you have someone who can not be mistaken for anything else but 100% Jewish. If one looks at who he gives money to, they will find many many Jewish organizations, and they will see that he has dedicated medical facilities in Israel in the names of both his mother and father. How would that impact this country? What would people think? What would world opinion be? To be honest, Mike Bloomberg is one of the least Jewy Jews I have ever met. While at a fund raiser at his home on the upper east side a few months ago someone pointed out that he does not even have a Mazzuza on his front door. And while he loves Israel would his mind be clouded when dealing with matters in the Middle East?

But deep down, what are people worried about? Are people worried that the rest of the world will hate America even MORE if our President is a Jew? I don’t know what’s worse in Europe, to be an American or a Jew. Are those worried about a Jew being in office worried that he or she might be a target for hate groups? That some people will not like their decisions and blame it on them being Jewish? We blame Bush for making calls based on his religious ideas. I mean what is this stem cell nonsense he is putting us through? I mean if that is not based on Religion what is?

“We don’t want them (the ‘goyim’) to have anymore of a reason to hate us.” Is one excuse I have heard. But if one is elected, who is blatantly Jewish, would people hate him? Wouldn’t he have a mandate in this country that shows most people DO like him?

Its late, and I am dreadfully tired, to the point of not making sense. However…has it ever occurred to anyone that today in American the Jews worst enemy is not the non Jew, not the Government, but ourselves?



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  • http://cup.weebly.com Dave

    I’m ready for a Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger ticket. It is constitutionally ok for Arnie to be VP, so long as he steps down should something happen to the president. I think the country could use the technocratic, entrepreneurial styles of Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Schwarzenegger.

  • yehoni

    The fear is that a Jewish President would confirm the belief that the Jews control US policy towards Israel. Personally, I think it’s a bunch of worrying over nothing. The people who would believe in that control will do so without a Jewish President, and they couldn’t possibly hate Israel or America more than they already do.

  • sjacobson

    Yehoni, don’t take this as an attack, but I think that statements such as, “they couldn’t possibly hate Israel or America more than they already do,” are very dangerous and naive. Although I voted for Gore in 2000, in 2004 I personally felt that I was uncomfortable voting for Kerry for various reasons, and despite my displeasure with many of Bush’s policies, particularly toward the middle class and the poor, I voted for him because I thought that he couldn’t possibly do any more damage to the U.S. than he had already done. Many would argue (and some did then) that I was very shortsighted and naive. In addition, for a less controversial point, I’ll close with this. About a year and a half ago I was doing research for the historian Sir Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s official biographer, and a prolific author on the Holocaust and Israel. He was working on a book about Kristallnacht and its aftermath, and I was to help him find out information on the Jewish refugee crisis that resulted. The most striking thing I found was a conversation between a senator and an advocate for child refugees during a committee session (I don’t remember offhand the names of those involved), I believe in May or June of 1939. The senator asked why the advocate was pushing for refugees from Germany and from no other country, as the whole of Europe at the time was in turmoil. His response will give you chills. He said (and I’m paraphrasing because I don’t have my notes in front of me). “We’re not concerned about Spain, because even though there is a civil war going on there, children are not being targeted and persecuted. In Czechoslovakia, we cannot do anything until the President decides on what his policy will be towards the annexation. And there is no cause for concern in Poland, because there are 3 million Jews there. They’ll be fine.”

  • Yoni Gross

    sjacobson, I’ll be honest, I don’t get how your response in any way relates to mine. Government can always do more damage, as long as it still exists. The US economy wasn’t in total collapse, we were only involved in two wars, one of which is quite small. Of *course* there was more damage to be done. And denial about dangers, or an inability to see that delays will result in tragedy doesn’t even begin to relate.

    Hatred isn’t something where degrees really matter. Either someone hates you, or they don’t. I’m not saying there can’t be more people who hate us. I’m saying that those who already hate, already hate us, and there’s no way to make *that* hatred any worse.

  • http://www.kobymandell.org Seth Jacobson

    OK, fair enough. Semantics aside, I think one ought to realize that there are a lot of people who don’t hate us, but only because they haven’t thought about us. There are enough people who hate us, who can also spread their hate to those who are weak-minded enough to believe in their ideas. I would say this, however: I don’t think that that alone is reason enough to oppose a Jew who runs for the Presidency. If a Jewish candidate happens to be the best person for the job, then more power to him (or her)! But if the winds of anti-Semitism begin to stir, and there’s a candidate equally qualified to run the country who isn’t Jewish, I personally would feel more comfortable, unfortunately, with the other candidate. I say ‘unfortunately’, because it is unfortunate that the world cannot accept a Jewish leader in that high of an office. But TaNa”Kh tells us to expect as much. We’re not meant to be the leaders of other nations, but to sojourn there until Mashiach comes to redeem us. I think it could conceivably work out, but the circumstances would have to be just right. Anyway, G-d willing, Mashiach will come this year, and we won’t have to worry about these trivialities. Gemar Chasimah Tovah.

  • Yoni Gross

    Well, it looks like we’re making some progress, anyway. There’s a good chance the new Attorney General will be Jewish, so that’s one more high government office we’ll have held. Enough Congressmen, Senators, and Cabinet officials, and maybe we’ll start to make some headway against this sort of reaction.