As the fundamentalist Christmas promoters are threatening to boycott businesses not offering customers a "Merry Christmas," here is what is happening in the White House...

The president's season of hope and happiness

Salon War Room
Tim Grieve
December 1, 2005

We didn't make the list again this year, but we've got our sources: The 2005 White House Christmas card has just arrived in the War Room mailbox.

Wait, did we say "Christmas card"? With apologies to our Christianist friends,

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/21/christmas/index_np.html

we must report that you won't find the word "Christmas" anywhere on this joint production of Hallmark and the Republican National Committee. On the outside of the card, there's a Jamie Wyeth painting of a rather lonely-looking White House in the snow. On the inside, the president and the missus send us -- or somebody, anyway -- their "best wishes for a holiday season of hope and happiness."

A "holiday season of hope and happiness"?

Where's the Christ child? The manger? The star, the goats, the gold, frankincense and myrrh?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question283.htm

If the White House Christmas card were a department store, it would find itself on Bill O'Reilly's naughty list.

http://www.billoreilly.com/blog#-893655144949340323

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