Bush Twins Toast to Obama

The well-known New York-centric media blog, Gawker, has a regular feature called "Gawker Stalker." It's basically a catalogue of celebrity sightings in the city, although submitters try to give more detail than just "I saw Uma Thurman at Barney's." The following post came in over the weekend:

Feb. 7 @ 8:30pm Barbara Bush, Henry & Jenna, table of dudes and six waiters did a shot to Obama at Gradisca. What was the toast?

"Obama, L'Chayim."

The wine was flowing liberally. None of them needed that shot. Can't make this shit up. I asked the waiter what wine they were drinking.

"Brought they're [sic] own wine," he said.
"Hope you charged corkage," I said.
"The sommelier said it was crap," he said...

Now, why on earth might the Bush twins want to toast the president who is succeeding their father? I'll let you guys make your guesses about that in the comments. I am personally way more interested in why they said L'chaim. No "cheers" or "best wishes" or "he's a jolly good fellow." I don't really think you can claim that the twins are buying into that whole notion of Judaism as hipster chic considering the reports that Jenna wouldn't let cousin Lauren's boyfriend David (son of Ralph) Lauren come to her wedding because he's a Jew.

Let's just hope they pronounced "L'chaim" properly. Remember ladies, if you're not spitting then you're not doing it right.