President Obama signed the extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance and then, without answering questions, bid the press corps adieu by saying, "Aloha". Off to Hawaii, where he claimed he got a touch of "laziness" while growing up. The last comment made Drudge and Politico for another attack on the President.
If the President's attacks on Christmas weren't enough, he allowed a giant Menorah in the Mall and even lit candles at a Hanukah celebration. But if this wasn't enough, the President and the First Lady appeared for his weekly video talk to the nation and kept repeating Merry Christmas throughout his talk and even alluded to the Christmas story and its inspiration for his family. In fact, you might say the Obamas went a little overboard with the Christian allusions. Maybe he was subtly suggesting the country could wake up next year with a Mormon as President.
I am sure that his Christmas address will be attacked because he alluded to a Christian ethic of taking care of one another and volunteering to feed the hungry and help the homeless in the holiday season.
The President was exuberant because he knew he was finally getting out of town. Hopefully, we will see him body surfing in Hawaii. For history buffs, he and Ronald Reagan are the only two Presidents who were body-surfers.
He leaves a town where Republicans are still fighting--at least as late as last night--over the debacle of the last month. The Roadrunner got away again and the rock fell on Wily Coyote.
Have a Happy Holiday and rest up for some real body slamming early next year when politics is likely to get even uglier than this past year. At least for our returning men and women from Iraq, there will be peace for them this year. And , hopefully, for the rest of us a more prosperous and fair country.
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