Carly Fiorina: Breadless Holiday Of Passover Is A Time To 'Break Bread'

[Mass]

Apparently, ignorance is a valued quality for GOPers.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/03/jewishoutreachfail.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Talking-Points-Memo+(Talking+Points+Memo:+by+Joshua+Micah+Marshall)&utm_content=Google+Reader

#jewishoutreachfail
David Kurtz | March 30, 2010, 5:49PM
California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R) describes Passover as a time where "we break bread and spend time with our families and friends."

[kestrel91316]

1. Oh, my. That's a rather unfortunate gaffe.

[MissMarple]

2. Well....grab some popcorn and pull up a chair.

:popcorn: And there is some iced tea and beer in the fridge. If this goes like the other message boards, this could take a while.

[cloudbase]

3. Much ado about not very much.

Even the hagaddah calls it the bread of affliction.

[Cleita]

4. She is unbelievably stupid. She makes Sarah look like a

Rhodes scholar. This isn't her only display of idiocy. How did she ever get to be the CEO of a large corporation?

[pundaint]

6. By starting out as the CEO of a much larger corporation.

[tledford]

8. Stupidity is the most important requirement to be CEO of a large corporation. eom

[pundaint]

15. I disagree, it's all High School - the right image is the thing. The smartest guy I ever met ended

up running one of the largest Life Insurance companies in the world - but it was after a dumb image guy was chosen over him to run another.

[Cha]

5. Oooops..that's Easter, carly..

Passover is a little different..and no thanks for being such a tool.

[CTyankee]

7. Next thing you know she'll want to break out the Easter ham!

Ya'll come!

Honestly, this woman has a clueless campaign and a clueless staff and she herself is clueless. Could you take a couple of minutes to INFORM yourself before making a fool of yourself in the very community you want to impress?

Part of being an inclusive and sensitive person is learning about different cultures before popping off with stuff. This just shows me that this person had NO IDEA what a Jew does at Passover, but is taking a cheap shot at capilalizing on one of its MAJOR holidays to make her point...utterly stupid...

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Matzo is bread

Unleavened bread.

[Cosmocat]

10. AND, you BREAK it ...

See, she was being very meticuluous in the details of it ...

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Frequently, the problem is NOT breaking it

:)

[karynnj]

18. The blessing for bread is said in the seder before the blessing for eating matzoh

[Yavin4]

11. It's Amazing That HP Survived

Simply amazing.

[unblock]

13. strictly speaking, it's correct. it just leaves out a rather significant detail.

unleavened....

[jillan]

14. Maybe it would help if she learned a little about Passover before she opened her mouth.

Makes you wonder if she got elected (heaven forbid) if she would learn about a bill before voting on it.

[Pab Sungenis]

16. Well, depends on your definition of "break bread."

If you take it to just mean eat together in celebration, then it's fine.

After all, every Jewish Holiday except for Yom Kippur basically comes down to "they tried to kill us, we survived, now let's eat."

[karynnj]

17. That's the way the matzoh crumbles

That shows a real lack of understanding of the holiday.