Marc Jampole, Author at Jewish Currents

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OpEdge: The Accidental President

December 20, 2016Marc Jampole

A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT AND A NATIONAL TRAGEDY by Marc Jampole IN IMAGINING presidential candidates at the beginning of 2016, if someone had said to me that an erratic and narcissistic sociopath would garner even a million votes, I would have considered it a national embarrassment, regardless of that candidate’s political stances. Same feeling if even […]

OpEdge: Get Them Out of Prison

November 18, 2016Marc Jampole

by Marc Jampole PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN that there is gridlock in Washington should understand that even with Congress and the President on the same page, the enactment of legislation is always an arduous process:

OpEdge: Who Will Help President Trump Break the Law?

November 10, 2016Marc Jampole

by Marc Jampole DONALD TRUMP by himself can’t get anything done. Like any president, he needs an army of managers, economists, engineers, attorneys, spokespersons, and other professional foot soldiers to head and staff departments and agencies to get the actual work done and documented. We already know that when it comes to getting his way, […]

OpEdge: Shame on Us, White People

November 9, 2016Marc Jampole

by Marc Jampole SHAME ON US, white people. We just rejected the most presidential, qualified candidate in history to vote for a mentally ill buffoon who spews hate speech and has no impulse control. We voted against someone who has studied every issue and developed a reasoned approach to each so we could vote for […]

Paul Celan as Existentialist Poet

October 27, 2016Marc Jampole

THE COMPLEX BEAUTY OF HIS LATE POEMS by Marc Jampole from the Autumn 2016 issue of Jewish Currents Discussed in this essay: Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, by Paul Celan, translated from the German by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014, 736 pages. MOST PEOPLE know poets by one or two poems […]

OpEdge: I Read the News Today, Oy Vey!

October 5, 2016Marc Jampole

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE 2016 CAMPAIGN by Marc Jampole CONTEMPLATING a day in the life of the current American presidential campaign is enough to make a sane person want to blow “his mind out in a car.” You know, the race between a “lucky man who [never] made the grade” and an […]

OpEdge: The Bully Gets the Sniffles

September 27, 2016Marc Jampole

by Marc Jampole I BEGAN NOTICING Donald Trump sniffing about a third of the way through the debate. He would pause several times in the middle of a run-on sentence and sniff loudly, kind of like a 7-year-old explaining that the dog ate his homework or a kid who has just lost a schoolyard fight. […]

OpEdge: Hillary vs. Trump, Issue by Issue

September 23, 2016Marc Jampole

by Marc Jampole AMERICANS in the 21st century judge their presidential candidates on many parameters: issues, party, character, demeanor (presidentialness, if I may coin a phrase), trustworthiness, and experience. Often how the candidates say what they’ll do is as important as what they say they’ll do. Let’s set aside all other aspects of the voting […]

OpEdge: The Quack Interviews the Creep

September 17, 2016Marc Jampole

WHY IS THE MEDIA PROMOTING DONALD TRUMP? by Marc Jampole MARK TWAIN would have changed the names and turned it into a hilarious short story: A charlatan physician interviews a charlatan businessman about his health. For that’s what we’re talking about in the Mehmet Oz interview of Donald Trump. Oz, a medical doctor, has a […]

OpEdge: Shocking Revelations in Clintons’ Tax Returns

August 15, 2016Marc Jampole

Hillary is Honest & Believes in Paying Her Fair Share by Marc Jampole NO WONDER Republicans are so afraid of Hillary Clinton that they continue to hitch their wagon to the exploding death star known as Donald Trump. The Clintons made $10 million last year, which definitely makes them one-percenters, just like all our presidents […]

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