What? No Easter Greeting?

[Dusty]

Hypothetically: If you were trying to make the case that he was Muslim, would this act help or hurt your argument?

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/201...ster-greeting/

Just when I thought the current team running the White House might have used up all its allotted mistakes comes word that President Obama failed to issue either either an Easter or a Good Friday greeting to the nation.

Now, let’s forget for a moment that these greetings, which presidents issue on many holidays and commemorations of events, are largely perfunctory and symbolic gestures that nobody cares about.

Until there’s a problem with them.

Fox News first caught the blunder and put it into context that makes the omission insulting to Christians. The mistake is odd enough to call into question just what Obama’s priorities are.

By comparison, the White House has released statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.

The White House . . . did release an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day. Likewise, the president’s weekend address mentioned neither Good Friday or Easter.

Obama, Fox notes, did head out to church yesterday and held an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House last week.

Obama is on a roll for religious holiday greeting screw ups. Fox News writes:

In 2010, Obama was criticized for releasing an all-inclusive Easter greeting. He reached out to Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and people of no faith at all in a statement about a holiday that is uniquely Christian.

And as I noted last week, the president released a Passover greeting this month that compared the ancient Jewish exodus from Egypt to the Arab political awakening this year, which would be a beautiful thing if most Arabs didn’t seek Israel’s destruction.

The president is, of course, hosting the Easter Egg Roll at the White House today. But Easter isn’t really about rolling eggs on a manicured lawn, now is it?

[Requiem]

What's that saying? "By their fruit, you shall know them?"

-S.

[Richard]

Did anyone not see this on Saturday?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and...lean-energy-fu

The guy and his staff are a different breed of communicator.

Richard

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Richard

Did anyone not see this on Saturday?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and...lean-energy-fu

The guy and his staff are a different breed of communicator.

Richard

I know, right?

"And another step we need to take is to finally end the $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies we give to the oil and gas companies each year. That’s $4 billion of your money going to these companies when they’re making record profits and you’re paying near record prices at the pump. It has to stop.

Instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy sources, we need to invest in tomorrow’s. We need to invest in clean, renewable energy. In the long term, that’s the answer. That’s the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. We can see that promise already. "

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Richard

Did anyone not see this on Saturday?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and...lean-energy-fu

The guy and his staff are a different breed of communicator.

Richard

So Richard - last years releases are old news. This year all his Holiday messages will be limited to a couple of sentences at the start of the weekly radio address?

I guess we'll see if you're right on this one.

[mark46th]

"Instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy sources, we need to invest in tomorrow’s. We need to invest in clean, renewable energy. In the long term, that’s the answer. That’s the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. We can see that promise already. "

Maybe he means he is adding a solar panel to power the propeller on his beanie...

[Gypsy]

Well he mananged an 8 paragraph commentary on Earth Day. And hasn't missed a beat on Muslim holidays.

And the church he went to? The pastor sounds a lot like Jeremiah Wright. Some things never change.

Full article at link with videos, snips are mine.



http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/2011/0...obamas-easter/

snip:

As noted on Monday in a Fox Nation posting, "President Obama failed to release a statement or a proclamation recognizing the national observance of Easter Sunday, Christianity's most sacred holiday."

By comparison, the White House has released statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.

The White House also failed to release a statement marking Good Friday. However, they did release an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day. Likewise, the president's weekend address mentioned neither Good Friday or Easter.

The report notes that last year, Obama's Easter message was a generic "feel good" address that "reached out to Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and people of no faith at all ... about a holiday that is uniquely Christian."

When the White House released statements about Muslim holidays, no attempts were made to include Christianity or to mention a spirit of inclusivity. For example, in his 2010 statement on Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, Obama made no references to Christianity or any other religion.

So... Obama goes from a generic, multi-faith Easter message (just typing that makes me roll my eyes) to no Easter message at all. What's going on here?


Snip - On the pastor:

As reported in The Blaze, the full Obama family attended Easter service at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, DC. The author notes that the media covered the event and even commented on the family's outfits.

What it failed to mention are the views held by the church's pastor. And while those views have not been delivered in the same fiery manner as Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, they sound eerily familiar.

What views are those? How about him saying in 2010 that the country is still racist, that racists get programs on Fox News, and that Rush Limbaugh is the new KKK.

That's right: Another FOB (friend of Barack) who hates America.

A story by WRNO radio digs deeper into what was said on Sunday by Pastor Wallace Charles Smith.

"[Pastor Smith] talked about how his baby grandson's gurgling is actually "talking" because he is saying 'I am here ... they tried to write me off as 3/5 a person in the Constitution, but I am here right now ... and is saying I am not going to let anybody from stopping me from being what God wants me to be.'"

The pastor hears American institutional racism in a baby's gurgle? Do most people with infants hear Constitutional bigotry in their baby's gibberish? Did any mention of the 3/5 clause or racism in general make it into the Easter service you attended? Is this pastor's amazing leap from a baby bark to white oppression another coincidence to add to the list, or has he established a pattern of race baiting and white bashing in the past?