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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom The NY Post (I don't believe this is a headline from The Post)
The whale at the wall
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made a huge impression at Israels Western Wall yesterday during his first official overseas trip as head of the Garden State.
Christie, wearing a yarmulke with his name and title embroidered on it, brought his political heft to the holiest Jewish site in Jerusalem, where he laid his hands on the rough-hewn stone, his eyes shut in prayer.
Surrounded by a throng of rabbis and onlookers, Christie downplayed suggestions that the trip to Israel is intended to raise his political prospects back home.
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I am here because this is a place of enormous significance in the world.
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Ian David
(69,059 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)"whale at the wall". or Chris Christie is beached.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)The NY Post has become the National Enquirer of daily tabloids -- nothing more than a sensationalist scandal sheet. (Although I have to admit, this one IS funny!)