It’s not my job to write about politics.
I mean I can hold my own in your typical on-the-way-out-of-shul conversation speculate and pontificate like any other yeshivah guy but I don’t really get many of the terms. Like if I was sitting at the table with Binyamin Rose Eytan Kobre or Yonoson Rosenblum I would probably just say Hamapil and stay safe — maybe feign laryngitis.
Yeah I know the parties and the main issues I know which is red and which is blue but I can’t really drop terms like “conservative Democrat” or “Reagan Republican” with a straight face.
And yet I interviewed the most talked-about figure in recent presidential politics actually enjoyed an intense 20-odd-minute conversation with him — an opportunity given to precious few in print media over the last year and certainly to no one in the Orthodox community. (If anyone else says they interviewed him well you know the old Yiddish joke: If you see a poor man eating chicken it means one of them is sick. Either the publication isn’t busy with accuracy or it wasn’t the real deal.) Over the last two months I’ve been on the receiving end of all sorts of reactions — some critical (“How could you do that?”) some complimentary (“How did you get that?”) some just curious.
