The President’s Suit
As you know President Obama just returned from China. While he was
there the premier of China gave him a gift of a beautiful bolt of
cloth. When President Obama returned he wanted to have a suit made
from the cloth so he called a tailor on London’s famous Seville Row to
come over and make him a suit.
When the tailor arrived he measured the President and he measured the
cloth and declared that he could not make him a suit. “There is not
enough material” the tailor said.
The President was disappointed but after thinking about it for a while
he called the French Ambassador and asked him if he could recommend a
French tailor that could make him a suit.
The Ambassador said that he would have one of France’s top men’s
designers flown over
to make him a suit.
When the French designer arrived he measured the President and he
measured the cloth and declared that he could not make him a suit.
“There is not enough material” the designer said.
President Obama was disappointed and happened to mention the problem
to the Israeli Ambassador. The Ambassador told him not to worry. He
knew of a tailor in Israel that could make him a suit from this fine
cloth.
A few days later Yankel shows up at the White House. He measured the
President and he measured the cloth and told him that not only would
he make him a suit but a vest and an extra pair of pants to go with
it.
Stunned the President asked how this Israeli tailor could not only
make him a suit but a vest and an extra pair of pants when the English
and French tailors said that there was not enough material.
The Israeli tailor looked at President Obama and said,
“Mr. President, in Israel you are not such a big man”