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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (122423)	10/3/2012 4:34:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

WASHINGTON — One evening in April 2008, three low-level staff members from the Obama presidential campaign — a baggage handler, a videographer and an advance man — gathered in the windowless basement of a Pennsylvania hotel for an improvised Passover Seder. Susan Sher, who is now Michelle Obama's chief of staff, at the White House Seder last year. The day had been long, the hour was late, and the young men had not been home in months. So they had cadged some matzo and Manischewitz wine, hoping to create some semblance of the holiday. Suddenly they heard a familiar voice. “Hey, is this the Seder?” Barack Obama asked, entering the room. So begins the story of the Obama Seder, now one of the newest, most intimate and least likely of White House traditions. When Passover begins at sunset on Monday evening, Mr. Obama and about 20 others will gather for a ritual that neither the rabbinic sages nor the founding fathers would recognize. nytimes.com