Posted on 09/24/2017 5:44:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
He was just 24, but speechwriter David Litt had already become President Barack Obama’s go-to guy for anything considered “kishke-related.” In Litt’s parlance, that meant he wrote the president’s speeches aiming to connect with Jewish Americans on a gut level — things like holiday and anniversary commemorations, but not, say, Israel or foreign policy.
That explains Litt’s presence one Friday night in the White House library in April 2012. A jet-lagged Obama had just returned from a trip to Asia and the last thing on his schedule was to record a video greeting for Passover.
“All right,” Obama said grumpily when he entered the room more than two hours late. “One take.”
The president got partly through Litt’s script before stopping at a line that mentioned how some in the past have tried to “destroy the Jewish people” in every generation.
“Isn’t that line kind of a downer?” the president asked. “What’s the deal? Like ‘Everyone’s out to get us; have some matzah.’”
As it happens, that’s exactly the deal, Litt remembers thinking. That memory — and many more — are recounted in his entertaining new memoir, “Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years.”
“POTUS had just summed up five thousand years of Jewish history in just eight words,” Litt writes. …
(Excerpt) Read more at jta.org ...
It must be confusing to be a liberal. Hillary is honest. Bill is black. Fauxcahontas is a Native American. Bruce Jenner is a woman. Abortion isn’t killing a human being. When Roman Polanski raped a 12 year old girl, it wasn’t “rape rape”. And now Obama is a Jew.
Well put.
Bergdahl is a hero, Mannings is a soldier, Rice is a UN ambassador, shooting 33 eople in an Army base cafeteria is "workplace violence", the FBI is honest, a communist can run the CIA honestly, and 0.3 degrees of global warming is the most serious international threat of all time.
The UN is ethical and can criticize the US on liberty, the First Amendment only protects liberal hate speech and hate art, but the government controls what is an approved religion and what is political hate speech. The second amendment requires gun control, but the welfare clause allows everything else. Taxes for health care are not taxes, but abortion CANNOT be regulated because of a right to privacy (that does not exist in the constitution, but nationalized health care requires every medical record be under government control and every health care decision be government regulation.
“What’s the deal? Like ‘Everyone’s out to get us; have some matzah.’”
Everyone’s out to get us, but in the end they are destroyed and we live to update the scoreboard again. Have some matzah, you dumb-assed latest attempt. See you in your downfall.
Reality has no place in the liberals’ world.
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