What’s Wrong With These People?
Fred Clark at the Slacktivist [via Scorpio] is right to yearn for The good old days, like January, 2008.
I like Facing South and respect the work of Chris Kromm, but he goes round the bend when the subject is Clinton. In his post, NC Primary Watch: How is Hillary honoring Passover?, he claims that when Clinton wanted the North Carolina debate date changed from today, she was “suggesting it would be offensive to Jewish families who will begin celebrating Passover at sundown today.” And then goes on to suggest that she should be doing something today associated with Passover.
Chris, she isn’t Jewish. This is a Jewish holy week, as in a Jewish religious observance. What was reported at the link you included: Clinton Agrees to N.C. Debate, was this statement: “But Clinton didn’t agree to the date, noting that night is the beginning of the Passover observance among Jewish people.”
Here’s the deal, Chris, she would like everyone to have an opportunity to see the debate, and Jewish people won’t be watching television on the first night of Passover. Would anyone schedule a debate for Christmas or Easter? She’s a Senator from New York, she has to track a lot of different holy days for a lot of different religions to avoid annoying her constituents.
We just had “the worst debate ever” [1.8 million hits on Google] a few of days ago, give people time to recover.
