Bill Clinton: Shofar Sho Good

December 9, 2007 at 11:01 pm

Fishbowl recognizes departing member of the White House press corps Trude Feldman.

We’ll leave the full tribute to Fishbowl.  Instead, we’ll crib from them one of the greatest Bill Clinton quotes of all time, one that we had forgotten but even today reminds us of the beautiful seasonal sounds of the Shofar — and Bill Clinton:

She did occasionally score an interview, like this one with Bill Clinton (taken from the September 29, 1998 Jerusalem Post):

“What has really been helpful to me in the last several months, and particularly in the last few weeks, is religious guidance that I have been given about atonement from the Yom Kippur liturgy, to remind me that while it is unusual for the president to be in a public situation like this, the fundamental truth is that the human condition - with its frailties and propensity to sin - is something I do share with others,” Clinton said in an interview last week with Trudy Feldman, a White House-based journalist, that was published in The Washington Post.

That may be the most outstanding product placement of Yom Kippur we’ve ever seen.  And trust us, we’ve been trying to work Yom Kippur into the routine for, like, forever.  We’ll say it again and again until the Messiah comes for the first time and returns Greater Israel to sole Jewish control: Bill Clinton is the greatest politician of all time.

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1 Comment »

  1. helen king said,

    September 3, 2008 @ 10:31 pm

    Trudy Feldman is my 2nd cousin. I would like to get in touch with her. My childhood name was “Honey”, daughter of Sidney and Terry Gordon, brooklyn ny

    Please assist me. Thank you

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