标题: Jews Should Not Vote in Unison: One Jew [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 3-16-2016 15:00 标题: Jews Should Not Vote in Unison: One Jew Joseph Epstein, The Political Stupidity of Jews Revisited. Why do so many of my fellow Jews stay in the Democratic Party’s pocket? Wall Street Journal, Mar 14, 2916 (op-ed) http://www.wsj.com/articles/the- ... evisited-1457906933
(paragraph 1: "The story has it that during the George HW Bush administration, [then secretary of state] James Baker proposes to his boss an idea that would go against Israeli interests. 'The Jews aren't going to like it,' President Bush says. Mr Baker replies: 'They don't vote for us anyway—screw 'em!' Fast forward 15 years, when Rahm Emanuel proposes a different idea to his boss that would also go against Israeli interests. 'The Jews aren't going to like it,' President Obama says. Mr Emanuel replies: 'They vote for us anyway—screw 'em!' ")
My comment:
(a) 'em = them
(b) It is a joke, of course.
(c) Rahm Emanuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
(born in 1959 in Chicago; full name: Rahm Israel Emanuel; Jewish; White House Chief of Staff 2009-2010, resigned to run an election; mayor of Chicago 2011- ; NEVER held the position of secretary of state)
(d) WSJ locks it behind a paywall. Yet you can imagine what the author argues about. Therefore there is no need to read the rest.