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The Worst Kind Of Scheduling Conflict [Obama Address preempts Charlie Brown Christmas]
Morning Call ^ | November 30, 2009 | John L. Micek.

Posted on 12/01/2009 7:23:23 AM PST by PapaBear3625

President Barack Obama ... ... is slated to deliver a prime-time address on Tuesday night in which he'll lay out his plans for the American war in Afghanistan.

The address before the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night will not only be used to announce the immediate order to deploy roughly 30,000 more troops, but the administration will also use the occasion to convey how it intends to turn the fight over to the Kabul government, the New York Times reported.

But the administration may also face an unforeseen enemy as it lays out its long-awaited plans. And they are loud and they are legion: We're talking about preschoolers and their parents.

That's because ABC-TV was scheduled to present its annual screening of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" at 8 p.m. tomorrow night. And we don't know about you, but that show is pretty sacrosanct around our house and not to be trifled with lightly.

A call to the White House may be in order here. We hear it's pretty easy to get through these days ...

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.mcall.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcdisney; bho44; boringpresident; charliebrown; christmas; culturewar; drudge; grinchstolechristmas; macacamoment; merrychristmas; obama; peanuts; theobamashow; waronchristmas
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To: PapaBear3625
If he interferes with the A Christmas Story marathon there will be revolution!
61 posted on 12/01/2009 7:52:11 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Which is why the commercial for it said December 8, when I thought it was on the 1. So, I am not going senile. But, my daughter just said about this, “Is he giving another speech? Doesn’t he do enough of those? President Bush didn’t do all this.”


62 posted on 12/01/2009 7:52:23 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: Grams A

I think that BO channel is a good idea too BTW.


63 posted on 12/01/2009 7:54:18 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A MELTING POT not a potters wheel. Join us. Don't try to turn this nation into the one you fled.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I don’t know why the alphabet networks don’t just be done with it and have an Obama hour every week. The Barack Obama Variety Show.... with special guest Marxists and other deluded leftists every week. Fortunately I work in the evening and I rarely watch the alphabets when I am home evenings.


64 posted on 12/01/2009 7:58:18 AM PST by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: LibLieSlayer
TYPICAL muzzie BASTARD!

Obama, like most other communists, hasn't a religious bone in his body. Commies despise religion. His Black Liberation Theology "church" advocates communist revolution. See my FR Home page for more info about it.

65 posted on 12/01/2009 7:59:09 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: DoughtyOne
Well, I will say this: If Peanuts was ever funny (I think it was), it became completely unfunny the last ten years or so of its run. I don't mean, "That joke's not funny." I mean, "There's no joke in this strip."

Ironic that Schulz threw his faith away and became a secular humanist, but Linus telling people the true meaning of Christmas will reach far more people than anything he said about humanism.

66 posted on 12/01/2009 7:59:14 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: tatsinfla

But then his far left sissy loony antiwar base would not get the message and they would be sobbing their eyes out...boohoo, boohoo...whimper, whimper...


67 posted on 12/01/2009 7:59:26 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Wah-wah, wah-wah-wah.

That's why he had to talk at the same time as the Charlie Brown special. Because, I know whenever he gives a speech, that's the sound I hear.

68 posted on 12/01/2009 7:59:48 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: Paleo Conservative

69 posted on 12/01/2009 7:59:50 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

It’s not vitriol, he just doesn’t like the strip. Big deal.


70 posted on 12/01/2009 8:01:59 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: PapaBear3625

LOL!! I didn’t click on the link until just now. Thanks for the bad language warning!


71 posted on 12/01/2009 8:02:12 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: tatsinfla

He has seen his poll numbers sinking like a rock and wants to make some more promises of free bubble-up and rainbow stew.


72 posted on 12/01/2009 8:02:50 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: PapaBear3625
This guy is ALWAYS on TV.

I won't watch....I can't stand the halting, dictatorial sound of his voice, let alone what his teleprompter tells him to say.

73 posted on 12/01/2009 8:02:56 AM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: PapaBear3625

I liked when Fox decided not to run a prime time press conf by Obama and stuck with their original programming...

The title of THAT show? “Lie To Me”


74 posted on 12/01/2009 8:03:39 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Catholic Canadian

He’s the trombone teacher, his wife is Lucy Van Pelt and his Press Secretary is Peter Griffin.


75 posted on 12/01/2009 8:04:30 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I didn’t care about it as a kid that much, but I like it now for the nostalgia factor :)


76 posted on 12/01/2009 8:04:59 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: PapaBear3625

I regret to admit that I found that funny as hell.


77 posted on 12/01/2009 8:05:15 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: DoughtyOne

That’s okay... I feel the same way about “Dora the Explorer”. But that’s probably because I’m a xenophobic racist.

I can see how the overall concept of the Charlie Brown cartoons can be grating. The whole idea of everybody relentlessly abusing Charlie (including his disloyal dog) for kicks is way overdone sometimes... often to the point of being uncomfortable.

But “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is different. As far as Christmas specials go, it’s perfection for me. Linus’ speech on the meaning of Christmas still gets me every time.


78 posted on 12/01/2009 8:05:20 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Tax-chick
Did you ever read 1984? Big Bro' wants your complete and undivided attention.........................
79 posted on 12/01/2009 8:06:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: murron

I have a whole big Christmas collection of dvds that I watch in case my favorites aren’t on such as WHITE CHRISTMAS, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, MR MAGOO’S CHRISTMAS CAROL, DR. SEUSS’S THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS, A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH ALISTAIR SIM AS SCROOGE, AND A NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS...


80 posted on 12/01/2009 8:06:30 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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