Barack Obama did not release a special statement for Christmas this year. But, he did issue a statement on the White House website in celebration of the fake holiday Kwanzaa on Monday December 26.
“Michelle and I send our warmest wishes to all those celebrating Kwanzaa this holiday season. Today marks the beginning of the week-long celebration honoring African American heritage and culture through the seven principles of Kwanzaa — unity, self determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
“We celebrate Kwanzaa at a time when many African Americans and all Americans reflect on our many blessings and memories over the past year and our aspirations for the year to come. And even as there is much to be thankful for, we know that there are still too many Americans going through enormous challenges and trying to make ends meet. But we also know that in the spirit of unity, or Umoja, we can overcome those challenges together.
“As families across America and around the world light the red, black, and green candles of the Kinara this week, our family sends our well wishes and blessings for a happy and healthy new year.”
To be fair, the president did send out a Christmas card – But it did not refer to Christ or Christmas. It was a picture of Bo the dog.
Thank God Sarah Palin had the guts to say something
Sarah Palin has no holiday cheer for the latest holiday greeting card to
come from the White House. The former Alaska governor and Tea Party icon focused her ire on the fact that the card does not mention the word “Christmas” and focuses on Bo, the First Dog, sitting by a fireplace.
The inside of the card reads, “From our family to yours, may your holidays shine with the light of the season.” It also features the presidential seal. The front has Bo lying next to a fireplace. There is holiday greenery over the fireplace mantle and presents underneath a poinsettia on a table, but no Christmas tree.
“It’s odd,” Palin told FOX News Radio , asking why the card focuses on the dog instead of traditions like “family, faith and freedom.”
“Even stranger than that, was his first year in office when the Christmas ornaments included Chairman Mao,” she said. “People had to ask that it be removed because it was offensive.”
The Huffington Post stated that referred to an ornament on the 2009 tree that featured a reproduction of Andy Warhol’s “Mao” portrait. Community groups, not the White House, reportedly decorated that year’s tree.
Palin told FOX News Radio that a majority of Americans want “American foundational values” on Christmas cards and on a Christmas tree.
“It’s just a different way of thinking coming out of the White House,” she said.
The Huffington Post said she made similar remarks in 2010 talking about having “Christ back in Christmas.”
Los Angeles-based artist Mark Matuszak, who created the card, told The Los Angeles Times that he was asked to make the card by the White House’s social secretary.
The Los Angeles Times said Bush included Bible quotes on his cards and leaned towards a Christian approach, while Bill Clinton’s administration leaned more to the secular side similar to Obama’s.
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