What? No Easter Greeting?
Keith Koffler|WhiteHouseDossier
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 Christian. 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.
PRESIDENT OBAMA MAY THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS HAVE A DIVINE APPOINTMENT WITH YOU .YOUR SOUL IS AT STAKE AS HE JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY ONE THAT DIED AND SET US ALL FREE.MAY HE GIVE YOU GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE WHEN YOU MAKE VERY IMPORTANT DESCICIONS AS YOU ARE REALETCTED MAY THE ANGELS BE WITH YOU WHE EVER YOU GO HE IS THE ONLY WAY TO our FATHER IN HEAVEN VERY MUCH LOVE FROM A CARING CRISTIan never ashamed of the gospel of jesus chrisst he died and rose and is alive
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OMG…I am a Christian and I am not offended. I think the President has more to worry about than this garbage. We will all have to answer for our actions in the very end.
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Don’t you like everyone running interference for this usurper? A mistake, a blunder, no, not in the least and we no longer find such excuses acceptable. It is loud and clear what “message” is being sent either through ommision or attributing the Jewish Passover to the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda uprisings which have already hinted at the annihilation of Israel itself. It is consistent and well thought out. Whatever Christ Obama calls himself a Christian of isn’t the same one I’ve read between Genesis and Revelation.
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