FEATURED JOBS
Surging GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has been making a lot of headlines lately, and not all of them positive.
She’s gotten some negative publicity for the psychotherapy practice that she owns with her husband for accepting federal dollars. Normally that wouldn’t be an issue, but as a staunch Tea Partier, she says she’s vociferously opposed to non-essential federal spending. To add to the brewing controversy, it’s now alleged that the practice is using federal tax money to “convert” homosexuals to heterosexuality through Christian prayer. (Read more here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/07/marcus-bachmann-says-clinics-not-anti-gay.html)
What irks me is that the Tea Partiers don’t have a problem using government funds to do Christian activities because they don’t believe the first amendment separates church and state activities, only that the government shall make no national religion. Recent rulings have referred to it as a separation.
In a more comical moment, Bachmann spoke on national TV criticizing President Obama’s fiscal policies. While attempting to call him a hypocrite, she inadvertently butchered the Yiddish word “chutzpah,” pronouncing it “choot-spa.”
My FaceBook page lit up with humorous posts, comparing her to a less intellectual president numbered 43. One of my conservative friends remarked in her Yiddish-challenged defense. “Michele Bachmann is Jew-friendly. She spent a summer working on a Kibbutz. I’m not sure if Obama has spent a month working anywhere.”
Given that President Obama has angered a large swath of the American Jewish community with his tough love on Israel, and Bachmann’s stance on the separation of church and state, and poor Yiddish, which candidate do you think is “better for the Jews?”
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