The Atlantic’s Goldberg: Obama ‘most Jewish president’ we’ve ever had

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As it now stands, Obama is: Kenyan, Hawaiian, Irish Catholic, Christian, Muslim, and now the ‘most Jewish president’ ev-ah. #PickOne #tcot

— LeighPatrickSullivan (@LeighPatrick) March 20, 2013

First gay president? Check. First female president? Check. Time for the trifecta — courtesy of Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg:

“(#Obama) is probably the most Jewish president the United States has ever had,”@jeffreygoldberg said in an interview with @haaretzcom

— Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) March 19, 2013

No, really:

On eve of @barackobama‘s visit to #Israel, @goldberg tells #Haaretz ‘Obama is the most #Jewish U.S. president ever’ htz.li/ZF3Qg7

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 19, 2013

“I think what many Israelis don’t understand is that Obama, from one angle of approach, is probably the most Jewish president the United States has ever had. When he ran for Congress against an ex-Black Panther candidate, he was accused of being the candidate of the Jewish community. He has been influenced by Reform rabbis and liberal Jewish lawyers and his intellectual influences include many Jews, both people he met at Harvard and in Chicago and writers he admires. In a certain way, he could be placed in the spiritual and moral mainstream of American liberal Judaism.

See? Some of the president’s best friends are Jewish!

Also Obama’s “the most Jewish president U.S. has ever had” – he loves Philip Roth! @noahpollak @jeffreygoldberg

— Alana Goodman (@alanagoodman) March 20, 2013

Um, Jeffrey, that sort of claptrap may fly with Chuck Schumer, but we’re not buying it.

How can Obama be the most Jewish U.S. president if he’s not religiously and/or culturally Jewish ? #seriously

— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) March 20, 2013

In what freaking sense? RT @benshapiro: .@jeffreygoldberg says Obama is the “most Jewish US president ever.” …

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 20, 2013

He controls the media? @kurtschlichter In what freaking sense? @benshapiro: .@jeffreygoldberg says Obama is “most Jewish US president ever.”

— sarainitaly (@sarainitaly) March 20, 2013

Heh.

.@jeffreygoldberg says Obama is the “most Jewish US president ever.” His nose is so far up Obama’s ass he’s performing a nasal colonoscopy.