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Now what would happen if Lieberman became president?
Would that mean he would not work on Saturday due to his highly orthadox beliefs?
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Liberman states in his book "In praise of public life" that he avoids non-emergency work on the sabbath, but keeps close to mind that the most important misvot is to care for fellow human beings and that to save lives or critical votes, he will break sabbath to do so. That response is indeed quite orthodox...the idea that Jews cannot do work for any reason on the sabbath ignores the reasoning behind the law.
That said, i think that the conscience and faith of the person we elect is all part of the package. I expect them to respect religious pluralism, but i could hardly trust someone who could "turn off" their religious convictions from 9-5.