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Posted on 04/25/2011 1:21:55 PM PDT by grundle
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 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?
UPDATE: Asked during this afternoon’s briefing about the issue, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney suggested Obama’s “high profile” visit to a church Sunday should suffice.
“I’m not sure if we put out a statement or not, but he obviously personally celebrated Easter with his family,” Carney said, adding ”the president took his family out to church in a very high-profile way.”
Carney added that Obama is a “devoted Christian.”
What a pie-eatin’ grin on that face!
Every time I see that picture my stomach turns. I absolutely cannot believe that this guy was elected to the presidency of the United States.
That made Spok LOL.
[Vulcans laugh on the inside.]
He will get 100% of the Muzzie vote.
Agreed. I'd rather not hear from the fellow during Easter Week. He obviously is just using his faux Christianity for political points. That's even more disgusting than an out an out atheist. Here, you have someone saying 'look at me I'm a Christian!', but then walking around muttering about 'rubes clinging to their Bibles'; ripping verses out their context for political expediency; never referring to the Bible as the inspired Word of God - but referring to the Koran as inspired.
Oh yes, and showing a zeal for supporting abortions that I'd describe as bizarre (probably even shaming the NARAL folks).
I don't know why the MSM silence (or their repeated frantic pronouncements that the One is a 'Committed Christian') bothers me - because I already know they are sold out supporters and cheerleaders of President Obama and all things socialist -- but it does continue to irritate me.
Someone should ask Mr. Obama if he believes that Jesus Christ was actually resurrected from the grave and walked among men.
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