It's As If Joe Lieberman Never Existed

An AP report on a presumed Michael Bloomberg run for the presidency can see nothing but his Jewishness. Honest to Betsy, it has never crossed my mind to notice Bloomberg is Jewish. When I think of him (on rare occasions) I think of his nitwit nurse policies and his politics, and I'm quite certain most Americans wouldn't think of people in terms of race or religion at all if the bleeping press would allow them not to. But no, the most interesting thing about people always has to be something like this:

his religion is a nonissue in a city that had its first Jewish chief executive, Abe Beame, three decades ago. The New York Jewish community is so large and active that even non-Jewish mayors take counsel from rabbis. So when Mr. Bloomberg won the 2001 mayoral race, Jews saw no significant advantage in having one of their own in City Hall.
But if the billionaire businessman decides to run for the White House, his faith will become much more than an afterthought: He would be on a path toward being elected the first Jewish president of the United States.

Which would be significant why? Like the subtle hint that the rest of America may be anti-semitic in an article going out of its way to single out an admittedly not-very-religious man for being Jewish?

And on the face of it, he's not the first Jew to run for high office, and that guy's ticket won the popular vote in 2000, so spare us. America's plenty ready for a Jew, a black, a woman or a Jewish black woman to be president. If he or she has the right policies.