Just in time for Purim, the Democratic National Convention Committee this week announced the official mascot for the 2008 convention: a donkey named Mordecai.
The mascot was chosen by a panel of judges at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. Mordecai and his handler, 12-year-old Sophie Herzog of Fairplay, Colo., will take part in ceremonies leading up to the August convention, which will be held in Denver.
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2nd comment - The donkey is just a mascot as is the elephant to the GOP Mordecai was a prophet who halped the early Jews survive and as result the feast of Purim was started. Mordecai was a "good guy." The donkey is the mascot. They were naming their mascot after a good guy. Any other brilliant (paranoid) articles looking for ghosts?
Well, Great. And we won't get upset, throw bombs, capture religious women of another persuasion or threaten to kill anyone. Rather, we goofily think that this is some kind of a plus. The Democratic party takes Jewish votes for granted and we accede to be ridiculed. Hooray
Sure why not? The party that is puffing their collected, liberal chests out over the "first, black candidate". And the one who'll talk to Isreal's enemies, the fact that the "m-ass-cot" be a Jew goes with their contempt for us. After all Jews are the "status quo" and he's the "change man" right? How much more disrespect do we, as American Jews, have to endure!
Your vile attempt to couch your own conservative bigotry in some paranoid delusion about the U.S. abandoning us when Barack becomes President is disingenuous and sinister. Jews (esp. those of us in Chicago) were a major factor in putting Barack where he is today in the first place, and he has not forgotten us. Moreover, I submit that the kind of change you so insultingly (and repeatedly) decry is exactly the kind of change we need. What have seven long years of incompetent Republican warmongering gotten us? Gaza overrun by Hamas, Qassams landing in Sderot on a regular basis, Iraq in civil war and Iran's position of power solidified as a result -- with a lunatic anti-Semite hand-liner it its helm -- and renewed hate crimes against Jews in Europe and elsewhere. Your way has not worked. Your policies have failed. Israel and Jews all over the world are in greater danger now due to the actions of people who believe as you do. If we are to survive as a people, if Israel is ever to make peace with its neighbors, then dialog -- even with our worst enemies -- is critical. Needless to say, it is no substitute for military preparedness, but it is the crucial first step towards reconciliation. To refuse to even engage those who threaten us is the height of folly: when we and our enemies begin to see each other as human beings with perspectives and motivations (that can be swayed) rather than targets on a map, we begin to see points of commonality. This makes conflict more difficult and less likely; history has proven so time and time again. As for the donkey: I suppose we should be honored. The donkey is the symbol of our party, and they chose to name it after one of us. If they named it Patrick, I'm pretty sure no lunatic fringe of Irish-Americans would start screaming about the U.S. abandoning Belfast. Anyway, the Republican party has loads of asses representing it; some of then, sadly, are Jews. What a pity that, 60 years after Jewish Leftists (excuse the redundancy) founded the state of Israel out of the ashes of the Shoah, the same morally bankrupt right-wing philosophy that murdered six million of us has come back to infect our own people.
It's obvious that Sohie Herzog (an obviously Jewish name) named the donkey herself. If I'm not mistaken, the Royal Tennenbaums movie had a pet named Mordecai (perhaps a bird, can't remember) and maybe that's where she got the idea. I don't think that the Democrats themselves named the donkey. Think people, think!
MAYBE this is GOOD as Mordecai has been KNOWN for HIS WISDOM CONCERNING ESTHER (HaDassah) in the Book of Esther. Has anyone considered this?