Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Not quite

Josh Marshall has it mostly right when he says:

Here's a Jew who says that no Jew should be able to serve in the US Congress unless he or she is willing to have a copy of the New Testament on hand when they take the oath of office. I'm not sure if one can appreciate this without having the context of Prager's general sanctimony and cloying ethnic self-abnegation. But it's hard for me not to imagine Prager as one of Jews in the Medieval Europe arguing that living in the Ghetto and maybe wearing these funny hats might actually be a good thing after all. I'll refrain from invoking the toxic parallels of more recent vintage.


Actually, at the first sign of any real difficulty or oppression, Praeger would have flippin' converted singing the praises of the King of Castille. He's all but converted now.

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