Sorry, Obama: James Madison was the closest thing we had to a Jewish president

Chief among these was Madison, who studied, spoke and read the Hebrew language. Madison not only showed great religious tolerance towards America’s Jews, but also applied the lessons of ancient Jewish history–along with many other civilizations–when he devised a constitutional model that dispersed power among different branches of government, as the best Israelite kings did in circumscribing their own power, leaving religious affairs to independent priestly authorities.

Obama resists the separation of powers, as well as the fundamental Judeo-Christian idea that there are good and evil in the world and that it is not only possible, but necessary, to choose between them. He steadfastly refuses to do so, and believes he has restored America’s stature by yielding to the expansive ambitions of the world’s most evil regimes. On the Iranian front, that appeasement risks the future of Israel itself. Hardly what one might expect from the “first Jewish president.”