If not, what is the closest that a jewish candidate has got? Have they won their party's nomination? won a primary? etc
2007-04-08 03:02:26 · 9 answers · asked by White_Clothes_Scare_Me 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
No, and Joe Liberman as Vice presidential caindidate was closest a Jewish candidate has got.
2007-04-08 03:07:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman ran for Vice President with Al Gore in 2000.
2007-04-08 03:09:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are currently 13 Senators and 30 Representatives of the Jewish faith. If you check Wikapedia, you will find a list of the current and past office holders.
2007-04-08 03:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! This might come as a shock to some people. Our 34th president was Jewish. His name is Dwight David Eisenhower! This information comes straight from The "Howitzer" Westpoint Yearbook (1915). Here is his profile verbatim:
"The Terrible Swedish- Jew"
Dwight David Eisenhower--Abilene, Kansas
Senatorial Appointee, Kansas---"Ike"
Corporal, Sergeant, Color Sergeant: AB., BA., Sharpshooter; Football Squad (3, 2), "A" in Football; Baseball Squad (4) ; Cheer Leader; Indoor Meet (4, 3).
"Now fellers it's just like this. I've been asked to say a few words this evening about this business. Now, me and Walter Camp, we think---"
----Himself
This is Senor Dwight David Eisenhower, gentlemen, the terrible Swedish-Jew, as big as life and twice as natural. He claims to have the best authority for the statement that he is the handsomest man in the Corps and is ready to back up his claim at any time. At any rate you'll have to give it to him that he's well-developed abdominally--and more graceful in pushing it around than Charles Calvert Benedict. In common with most men, he is an enthusiastic and sonorous devotee of the King of Indoor Sports, and roars homage at the shrine of Morpheus on every possible occasion.
However, the memory of man runneth back to the time when the little Dwight was a slender lad of some 'steen years, full of joy and energy and craving for life and movement and change. 'Twas then that the romantic appeal of West Point's glamour grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and dragged him to his doom. Three weeks of Beast gave him his fill of life and movement and as all the change was locked up at the Cadet Store out of reach, poor Dwight merely consents to exist until graduation shall set him free.
At one time he threatened to get interested in life and won his "A" by being the most promising back in Eastern football--but the Tufts game broke his knee and the promise. Now Ike must content himself with tea, tiddledywinks and talk, at all of which he excels. Said prodigy will now lead us in a long, loud yell for--Dare Devil Dwight, the Dauntless Don.
Eisenhower's profile comes straight from the 1915 West Point Military Academy's Yearbook. A picture of a youthful "Ike" is shown.
FDR--*Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Rosenvelt) by all accounts was Sephardim. Mainly of Spanish (Spain) origin. I will not say for or against whether FDR is Jewish until I have the exact source that I am unable to find at this moment. As for Dwight Eisenhower the source comes from Colonel Donn de Grand Pre's book--Barbarians Inside the Gates, 1st book of a trilogy: The Viper's Sting, page-22.
*Okay, I found it! However, I do not want my response to be longer than what is expected for this format. But yes, FDR by Grand Pre's account was Jewish! It took me 11 hours to find and send this to you. If you want the details, send me an email to verify the source. I would be most happy if you pose this as a question on yahoo Answers. Email me and let me know that you have posted this as a question. I will give the background from my source and write verbatim from what is generally not known about FDR.
2007-04-08 05:36:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. there's been a Jewish Prime minister in Britain: Benjamin Disraeli, although he wasn't a practicing Jew.
2007-04-08 03:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, there hasn't, and I hope there never is. It's bad enough with US taxpayers being ripped off by the jewish lobby to the tune of billions of dollars every year, and the last thing we need is a jewish president who will divert all US defense spending to Israel. That would be a flat-out disaster for the United States and serve to more firmly cement the Arab notion that the US and Israel are the same country. We do not need more association with Israel, we need less or none at all is even better. To do this, we must get the jews off our backs and out of our wallets.
2007-04-08 03:10:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
we have had a jewish transport minister, thats why people say what times the next bus jew.
2007-04-08 08:24:15 · answer #7 · answered by trucker 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, and only one catholic president as well.
2007-04-08 03:08:20 · answer #8 · answered by Lone Papa 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Has there been a black Pope?
2007-04-08 03:08:02 · answer #9 · answered by lykovetos 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋