It used to be that candidates kissed babies. Well, not all of them. Batman was running for city council in Gotham once, but refused to kiss one because it was not hygienic, and could be harmful to the child.

Now it seems eating and being filmed doing so is the thing.

But, there are dangers in that.

Poor John Kasich went to a pizzeria in New York, and rather than pick up the slice placing his index  finger in the center of the crust and folding the pizza by raising the thumb and middle finger, he used a knife and fork.

A knife and fork.

Obviously while attempting to show he was one of the guys, he showed he clearly wasn’t.

Then there was that pickle thing.

In a deli he savored various styles of pickles, but it was obvious from what was on the plate that these were new pickles and not the aged sour savory ones those from the Northeast pine for when we are living west of the Appalachians.

He might as well have been eating cucumbers with the word “pickle” written on them.

His next error was standing outside a matza bakery and, while talking, carelessly shaking the box of matzas potentially breaking them, which would render them unusable on Passover, and instead merely large crackers

But as bad as these faux pas were, it was when he forgot that the appeal to Christianity to get the evangelical vote just doesn’t work when you are in a Hasidic section of Brooklyn.

At a book store in Borough Park, he encountered a group of Talmud students.

“What do you guys do?” Kasich asked them.

“Study,” was the reply.

“And what are you studying?” Kasich asked.

“Talmud,” the men responded.

“OK, but what are you learning right now?”

“Um …” Long pause.

“And what is your lesson?” Kasich pressed.

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“Yeah …” Kasich said.

This was followed by an awkward pause.

“You know who I like?” Kasich finally said. “Joseph. You guys like Joseph? You study Joseph? What do you think about Joseph? Did you hear the most important thing Joseph said to his brothers?”

Crickets.

That would be like going to a catholic high school run by nuns and asking the kids, “Hey, ever hear about Saint Peter?”

And being the true evangelical pandering politician he is, he forgot his Christian privilege and displayed his assumption that it’s all Christianity all the time in the United States when he attempted another awkward conversation about the upcoming Passover.

“The order from God, on the last, on the last plague that was sent to the Egyptians, was the first born, every male was going to be visited by the Angel of Death. ‘Let my people go. Let my people go. The Jews were instructed to take the blood of the lamb, and to put the blood of the lamb over the lampposts, over the doorposts, so when the Angel of Death came and saw the blood of the lamb, the Angel of Death would pass over their homes.”

 “The great link between the blood that was put above the lamppost, the blood of the lamb, is Jesus Christ is known as the Lamb of God. And the great link is, it was the blood of the lamb that saved the Jewish people, and in Christianity, it was the blood of the Lamb of God that saves all of us. It’s a wonderful, wonderful holiday for our friends in the Jewish community, the Passover.”

Apparently he does not see that a Jesus reference doesn’t work as well in the most conservative Jewish section in Brooklyn as it does in other parts of the country where religions other than Christianity are consistently dismissed.

During my time teaching middle school level Special Education I had kids who had learning disabilities which meant that they were intellectually equal to their peers, but had some problem processing certain information. Another time I had kids who were labeled “Emotionally Disturbed” which also meant that they were equal to their peers intellectually, but something in their life had overwhelmed them so processing information and living within a larger society was difficult for them.

My job was basically to find ways around these roadblocks so they could eventually attend classes with their peers without intervention.

During class one day an administrator from the central office was visiting the school, and decided to come to my class. To show empathy with my students he sat down next to one of them and began a conversation. He spoke, slow, loud, and in simple vocabulary, which caused the student to look uncomfortably toward me as he wasn’t sure what was wrong with the man in the suit.

I motioned to him to just go with the situation

He did his best to be polite, even as the other kids who were observing this began to look to me and discreetly gesture in an attempt to find out what was wrong with this man who looked important.

After he left, the students wanted to know how someone who obviously would have fit in with Mrs. Dorothy’s kids, whose classroom was filled with elementary level educational books and manipulatives since they were mentally handicapped, had such a good job in the school district.

They were questioningly sympathetic toward this man who seemed to be below them in intellectual capacity.

When I watched, and then re-watched the video of Kasich talking to the Talmud scholars, I saw them shooting the look my students had.

Uncomfortable.

Out of touch