WP - * White House mass mails "Holiday" Cards, "Christmas" missing!

RamboLiberal has a post about this in LBN
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1970452&mesg_id=1970452

but I thought a GD post was warranted as well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/06/AR2005120601900.html

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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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But the White House's explanation does not satisfy the groups -- which have grown in number in recent years -- that believe there is, in the words of the Heritage Foundation, a "war on Christmas" involving an "ever-stronger push toward a neutered 'holiday' season so that non-Christians won't be even the slightest bit offended."
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ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

This is effin Excellent!

Happy Holidays!

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Lovin' it!!!

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

soon be blaming the secular humanists for influencing chimpie. :eyes:

"At the Catholic League, Donohue had just announced a boycott of the Lands' End catalogue when he received his White House holiday card. True, he said, the Bushes included a verse from Psalm 28, but Psalms are in the Old Testament and do not mention Jesus' birth."

Yes, Virginia, the card includes a bible verse, but it's Old Testament, so it doesn't really count. Because a greeting card, not Jesus, is the true reason for the season.

Irony is truly dead when reality is stranger than fiction...

mikey_the_rat