Fiorina: Passover A Time To 'Break Bread'

[sabra]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/03/fiorina_passover_a_time_to_bre.html

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Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO who is a Republican candidate for the Senate from California, is well known on this blog for doing things, shall we say, differently.

Now Ben Smith at Politico reports that Fiorina sent a letter to her supporters yesterday in honor of the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which she described as a time where "we break bread and spend time with our families and friends."

Um, Passover is the holiday in which Jews celebrate their escape from bondage in Egypt in which for eight days they eat Matzoh in place of bread.

Here's the Fiorina e-mail message:

Passover is a time of remembrance and thanks. This festival provides us all -- Jewish, Christian and all faiths -- an opportunity to reflect on the challenges we have faced and the triumphs we have achieved together. It is also a reminder of the resilient spirit that has carried people through trials of every kind through every generation.

This week, as we break bread and spend time with our families and friends, I hope we also take a moment to say a word of thanks for our freedom and for those who have given their lives in freedom's name. Let us also look ahead with hope to the opportunities to come.


Maybe she meant to say "as we break unleavened bread?"

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

1. Oy vey. n/t

[gratuitous]

2. No harm, no foul

I don't think Carly was counting on a big slice of the Jewish vote anyway.

[CBGLuthier]

3. I wonder how the ancient Egyptians celebrated passover

When that strange god killed so many of their children. Must have been freaky. Sure must have been worth some kind of holiday like we got fucked by a jealous, selective, racist god day or some such.

[stray cat]

8. Probably like most of us today - complaining about our bad luck....

[onenote]

11. probably the way slaveholders celebrated losing the civil war?

I don't think you were trying to defend slavery. I'm just not sure what you thought you were doing.

[walldude]

4. People use break bread as a euphemism for eating together

Granted she's a moron but people are wasting time on this?


Shit now I'm wasting time on this :eyes:

[frazzled]

6. Not only is it worth pointing out the ignorance and insensitivity ...

She gets the meaning of the holiday wrong altogether. It's not about celebrating past triumphs and achievements ... it's about reflecting on escaping from bondage to freedom, a journey that is never fully achieved, as people remain enslaved, both personally and politically. Passover is to remind every generation that the work of liberation for all people, and for oneself, continues.

As a passage from one of the two Haggadahs we used last night puts it:

"On this night, long years ago, our forefathers hearkened to the call of freedom. Tonight, that call rings out again, sounding its glorious challenge, commanding us to champion the cause of all the oppressed and downtrodden, summoning all the peoples throughout the world to arise and be free.

Let us raise our cups in gratitude to God that this call can still be heard in the land. Let us give thanks that the love of freedom still burns in the hearts of our fellowmen. Let us pray that the time be not distant when all the world will be liberated from cruelty, tyranny, oppression and war."

(Okay, this is an old book, so we change "forefathers" to "forebearers" and "fellowmen" to "fellow men and women"!)

[BurtWorm]

5. A time off for those who bring home the bacon.

[PCIntern]

7. ...and play 'hide the salami'?

Hebrew National Salami that is...

[elehhhhna]

14. LMAO -- you're such a HAM!

[blogslut]

9. I love this woman!

Her tin ear is glorious!

Please Carly...keep talking. Don't stop and don't ever change.

[unblock]

10. i thought it was a time when we celebrate betraying a jew to the romans for cruxifiction

:hide:

and isn't hannukah just a celebration of christmas envy?

:evilgrin:

[SharonRB]

12. Oy gevalt!

What a dimwit.

[elehhhhna]

13. she wouldn't know a pickle from a popover.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Oy...

for the record the Seder does call for BREAKING a MATZAH...

But oy...

It also calls for sharing a meal with the hungry.

[Berry Cool]

16. Nothing really to see here. Matzoh is unleavened bread.

So really, Jews and Christians DO both break bread at Passover and Easter--and oftentimes when Christians speak of "breaking bread," they mean Communion, and the Communion bread is an unleavened wafer, symbolic of the Last Supper and the unleavened bread broken there.

C'mon, if we're gonna make fun of Carly, let's do it with any number of a million other truly dumb things she's said.