There has been a lot of doubt about Bill Clinton’s lack of enthusiasm for Barack Obama.  Now comes a report from ABC News” Jake Tapper that the former president will hold off campaigning for the Democratic nominee until after the Jewish holdidays despite not being Jewish.

On a previously recorded interview to air on CNN’s “Larry King Live” tonight, former President Bill Clinton says he will wait until after Thursday, Oct. 9, before he will start campaigning for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Politico’s Ben Smith reports.

What’s the significance of Oct. 9?

Why, it’s the Jewish Day of Atonement, of course.

And though the Southern Baptist former president isn’t known for being a particularly devout Jew who observes the High Holy Days, apparently he’s decided to wait until after Yom Kippur and the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, before he starts campaigning for his wife’s former rival, for whom many Democrats suspect the Clintons aren’t exactly rooting enthusiastically.

Excuses, excuses.

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