This week’s (first) New Voices editorial concerns the curious appearance of an op-ed by Barack Obama in the pages of a few college newspapers last week.
If Obama is a Jew (thanks to the Jewish Daily Forward for providing us with that notion), then he was also once one of us, a Jewish student journalist! Here’s a piece by Barry Obama in the Occidental College Sundial from 1983:
P.S. You’re excused for not knowing New Voices had an editorial board. Hell, the three suckers I convinced to join me didn’t even know about it until this week. (The three suckers, by the way, are Web Editor Harpo Jaeger, Associate Editor Zach C. Cohen and National Correspondent Dafna Fine.)
Anywho, henceforth we shall endeavor to provide you with regularly scheduled cleverness in the form of weekly unsigned staff editorials. Read this week’s here.
