The Reality Of Politics In A Democracy

Questions:

How many Muslims sit in the house and the senate in the USA?

How many Jews, Christians, et al sit in the governments of Muslim dominated bodies?

David Frum: Obama's Tammany politics

Posted: June 04, 2009, 11:30 AM by NP Editor

The story goes like this:

A delegation of American Jews visited the White House to thank President Theodore Roosevelt for naming Oscar Straus as Secretary of Commerce and Labor — the first Jew ever to serve in the Cabinet. President Roosevelt told the delegation what they wanted to hear: "I chose Oscar Straus because he was the best man for the job irrespective of ancestry and creed!" Everyone applauded.

It fell to the most senior member of the group, Jacob Schiff, to close the meeting. Schiff, very deaf, had failed to hear the president's words. He said: "When the president told me, 'Jake, I vant to put a Jew in the Cabinet, I answered, 'Mr. President, Oscar Straus is the man!"

Ticket-balancing is as American as deep-dish pizza. Nineteenth-century Americans worried about balancing North and South; Yankees, Irish, and Germans. Mid-20th-century Americans shifted the focus to management versus labor and to Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. The man who defined legal liberalism at its zenith, William Brennan, arrived on the Supreme Court not because President Eisenhower liked his rulings but because the Republican ticket wanted to claim credit for appointing an Irish Catholic from a northeastern state.

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