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Title: 'Holiday' Cards Ring Hollow for Some on Bushes' List
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URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy ... /12/06/AR2005120601900_pf.html
Published: Dec 7, 2005
Author: Alan Cooperman
Post Date: 2005-12-07 01:09:10 by Zipporah
Keywords: Holiday, Bushes, Hollow
Views: 146
Comments: 6
What's missing from the White House Christmas card? Christmas. This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy "holiday season." Many people are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, no matter what the greeting inside. But some conservative Christians are reacting as if Bush stuck coal in their stockings. "This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture," said William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Bush "claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn't act like one," said Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Web site http://WorldNetDaily.com. "I threw out my White House card as soon as I got it." Religious conservatives are miffed because they have been pressuring stores to advertise Christmas sales rather than "holiday specials" and urging schools to let students out for Christmas vacation rather than for "winter break." They celebrated when House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) insisted that the sparkling spectacle on the Capitol lawn should be called the Capitol Christmas Tree, not a holiday spruce. Then along comes a generic season's greeting from the White House, paid for by the Republican National Committee. The cover art is also secular, if not humanist: It shows the presidential pets -- two dogs and a cat -- frolicking on a snowy White House lawn. "Certainly President and Mrs. Bush, because of their faith, celebrate Christmas," said Susan Whitson, Laura Bush's press secretary. "Their cards in recent years have included best wishes for a holiday season, rather than Christmas wishes, because they are sent to people of all faiths."
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
Sent to people of all faiths? Ummmm... WHY? Why would you send a CHRISTMAS CARD to a Jewish friend or to a Muslim? It's easy enough to buy a handful of appropriate cards for those who don't celebrate Christmas and who might be offended by getting a Christmas card.... I mean shit, that fella THREW HIS CARD OUT AS SOON AS HE GOT IT.... Why? Because it had a dog and cat frolicking instead of something biblical... petty? you betcha.... But on the other hand... isn't Bush pandering a bit much to choose his PERSONAL cards to be non specific? Or is he really NOT the Christian he pretends to be? That's what I BELIEVE.
Don't force feed me your views... talk to me so I can hear you...
Exactly.. and he's inflamed the christian right on this one.. his base basically..He keeps throwing them bones.. like Schiavo .. the Christian rhetoric.. against gays etc.. all a smokescreen all to placate the masses.. all the while he does more to damage this country than I ever could have thought in just a few short years...and what does the Christian right do?? Listen to his words and ignore his deeds.
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I suspect it is all a part of Bush's plan. He's now in the "can't win for losing" stage and he's going to play it for all it is worth, lol.
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I still have a Christmas card/photo of Smirk dancing with Laura (from a few years ago). Gack!
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#2. To: siagiah (#1)
But on the other hand... isn't Bush pandering a bit much to choose his PERSONAL cards to be non specific? Or is he really NOT the Christian he pretends to be? That's what I BELIEVE.
#3. To: Zipporah, siagiah (#2)
...all the while he does more to damage this country than I ever could have thought in just a few short years...
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? - Will Rogers
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