The Great Schlep (or, the greatest campaign idea EVER)

I've never been prouder to be Jewish:
(Warning: super-duper NSFW)

The Great Schlep is real. It's the brainchild of the Jewish Council for Education and Research. Which is real.

Don't believe me? The LA Times has a fun column about it:

Hundreds of Jews will make the Southern exodus on Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 10-13. They will travel to the Fort Lauderdale area, where they will visit their grandparents, organize political salons in their condos and eat incredibly bad food. The grandkids also will meet up at a bar one night, which -- if the psychological impact of spending a few days with frail, elderly, widowed relatives is taken fully into account -- may do more to repopulate the world's Jews than the creation of Israel.

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To persuade Mama Ann to vote for Obama, I used many of the talking points suggested to me by Great Schlep organizer Mik Moore. These included the fact that Obama went to Columbia and Harvard, and McCain got bad grades in college; that Obama has been criticized by the Rev. Jesse Jackson; and that Obama ran the business side of his campaign better than any other candidate. I did not know that I could be so racially offended by my own people.

Hillary is F*cking Obama???

It's clear that there has been a wave of infidelity in our society. Ex-governor Eliot Spitzer. Current governor David Paterson (and his wife). Even two of our favorite celebrity couples, Jimmy Kimmel/Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon/Ben Affleck have failed to be faithful to each other.

Well now it has become evident that the two contenders for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are closer than we may have thought...