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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 11:51 AM
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White House celebrates Rosh Hashanah a week early

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/white-house-cel.html

President Bush issued a statement last night that sends "greetings to those around the world celebrating Rosh Hashanah." Unfortunately, that holiday doesn't begin this week.

The Jewish new year -- 5768 -- begins at sunset on Sept. 12. In prior years, the president's message was released within a day or so of the holiday. This year, perhaps because they're in Australia, a day ahead of the rest of us, they sent out the greeting a week in advance.

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 11:52 AM
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1. or maybe they don't really give a damn..
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 11:52 AM
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2. What a fucking idiot!
Could this jackass be anymore embarrassing?
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 11:53 AM
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3. lol! I just wished my assistant here a Happy New Year and she to me as
we won't see each other next week.

Just notch up another gaffe to his list..i
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 11:54 AM
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4. Is anyone really surprised by this....
I know I'm not. *sigh* Dumbasses.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 11:56 AM
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5. He figured his "Word a Day" Calendar didn' have room for
notations for Jewish holdiays. And his word for the day was "Incompetent". Tomorrow, it is "Insensitive". Then we are back to "Incompetent."
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tomreedtoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:19 PM
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6. Are there any devout, observent Jews left in the White House now?
Or, perhaps more to the point...are there any who wished to save Bush from making such an obvious faux pas? Perhaps they wanted The Decider Guy, The Meat Man, to look like the dunce that he is?
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:56 PM
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8. Bush's chief of staff, Josh Bolten
http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/stanford_lawyer/issues/69/bolten.html

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Josh Bolten tries to find time to practice his religion despite his busy schedule. He belongs to a local temple, tries to attend Sabbath dinner at his sister's house when he can on Friday nights, and doesn't eat pork. The Bushes have been sensitive to this fact and always put a big mushroom on their grill during barbecues so that Bolten will have something he can eat. At Bolten's first cabinet meeting last year, the President asked him to give the opening prayer and Bolten did—in Hebrew. "A lot of folks ask about being a Jew in the Bush White House," Bolten volunteered. "The fact is that the Bush family is open and welcoming and the President and Mrs. Bush are people of deep faith who respect faith . . . and not just their faith."
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-06-07 01:32 PM
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7. Probably because the next PNAC event will happen before then...a coded message....
....to Israel?! :tinfoilhat: :nuke: :tinfoilhat:
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