This will drive the rightwing nuts wild: more proof that the "real" America is being destroyed and diluted.
I love it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:54:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama Seder: a new tradition http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28seder.html WASHINGTON — One evening in April 2008, three low-level staff members from the Obama presidential campaign — a baggage handler, a videographer and an advance man — gathered in the windowless basement of a Pennsylvania hotel for an improvised Passover Seder. Related The day had been long, the hour was late, and the young men had not been home in months. So they had cadged some matzo and Manischewitz wine, hoping to create some semblance of the holiday. Suddenly they heard a familiar voice. "Hey, is this the Seder?" Barack Obama asked, entering the room. So begins the story of the Obama Seder, now one of the newest, most intimate and least likely of White House traditions. When Passover begins at sunset on Monday evening, Mr. Obama and about 20 others will gather for a ritual that neither the rabbinic sages nor the founding fathers would recognize.
