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(CNN) Amusing Proving once again why they will be missed, the Bush White House screws up the Christmas cards   (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) divider line 46
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KyngNothing [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 04:30:12 PM  
Technically, they screwed up the Hanukkah cards, it would have been a perfect christmas one

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 04:33:25 PM  
Non-story. Overzealous sarapher.

 
SpinStopper [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 04:33:57 PM  
Just to make up for it, they should send out Wiccan holiday cards to the Christians ;)

 
borg [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 04:37:15 PM  
Proving once again why they will be missed, the Bush White House screws up the Christmas cards Hanukkah cards.

 
SherKhan 2008-11-26 04:40:46 PM  
Please be a Barbara Jr. nipple slip.

 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 04:40:50 PM  
Was said card attached to a holiday ham?

 
bobbette [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 04:41:24 PM  
McDonough added that the White House had received "dozens" of calls of support from members of the Jewish community to express their appreciation for what President and Mrs. Bush had done for them through the course of Mr. Bush's presidency.

I know Jewish people tend to vote Democratic, but Republican Jews are down to double digits? Ouch!

 
RandomExcess 2008-11-26 04:43:47 PM  
George Bush doesn't care about Jewish people.

 
Bill_Wick's_Friend 2008-11-26 04:55:07 PM  
trouzourt: maybe he is finally telling the joos that they are not welcomed?

Finally? After decades of the Republicans hanging out with Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and James Dobson? After hearing "America is a Christian nation" from GOP mouthpieces for years and years? After hearing Ann Coulter describe Jews as "imperfect Christians"? After hearing how so many Republicans think that Jews are a neccesity so that they can all move back to Israel and be destroyed by the return of Jesus? After the GOP so happilly embraced Andy "I understand the Holocaust cuz the Jews are easy to hate" Martin simply because he had bad things to say about Barack Obama?

I got the message a while ago.

 
snocone [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 05:16:50 PM  
Once again, incompetence trumps maelevolence.

Give a Skull a break. He has to have difficulty finding help anymore and never really could hire effectively.

 
burndtdan 2008-11-26 05:16:53 PM  
oy vey, what a putz

 
Gregn1972 2008-11-26 05:20:05 PM  
SpinStopper: Just to make up for it, they should send out Wiccan holiday cards to the Christians ;)

I lol'd

+1

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 05:21:53 PM  
snocone: Give a Skull a break.

Hmmmm...you a Skull or a Deke?

 
ne2d [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 05:23:29 PM  
Seeing how subby screwed up the headline worse than the ehite house screwed up the cards (seriously--a winter scene that has a Chrismas tree in the back of a trailer in the corner?) I'd say this qualifies as a non-story.

 
burndtdan 2008-11-26 05:27:08 PM  
ne2d: Seeing how subby screwed up the headline worse than the ehite house screwed up the cards

oh the delicious ironing

i89.photobucket.com

 
platkat [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 05:37:35 PM  
First White House Chrismukkah cards accidentally sent

I hate that word. And in this case, it's improperly used. "Chrismukkah" implies that they intended to celebrate both, while the recipients in the story are decidedly Jewish.

 
Cake Hunter [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 05:42:56 PM  
I bet that jackass pardons Kinkos and they get off scott free. God I hate America. Land of the "free" my ass!

DOWN WITH MAIL

 
choice and consequence 2008-11-26 05:49:24 PM  
So, I'm not clear on how wreaths and a tree are offensive. Aren't they both pagan symbols of life? Somebody spell this out for me.

 
NicoFinn [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 05:51:48 PM  
Proving once again why they will won't be missed, the Bush White House screws up the Christmas cards

 
CravenMorehead 2008-11-26 05:52:44 PM  
SherKhan: Please be a Barbara Jr. Sr. nipple slip.

Oooh baby.

 
meat0918 2008-11-26 05:52:58 PM  
As long as they don't serve this at the banquet

sethgodin.typepad.com
//Screwed up yesterday with this image, so I need to redeem myself.

 
Mercutio74 2008-11-26 05:56:13 PM  
This is the first counterstrike in the War on Christmas! Now is the time, my Christian brothers! Take up your arms and we will smite the godless Hebrew wherever they live!

/Or at least ask them for a campaign contribution...

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 05:58:11 PM  
Missed by whom, exactly?

 
Bill_Wick's_Friend 2008-11-26 05:59:45 PM  
choice and consequence: So, I'm not clear on how wreaths and a tree are offensive. Aren't they both pagan symbols of life? Somebody spell this out for me.

Offensive? No.

Stupid to put them on an invitation to a Channukah party? Definitely.

 
epocalypse 2008-11-26 06:07:46 PM  
trouzourt: maybe he is finally telling the joos that they are not welcomed?

no, not that, just to convert.

 
Godscrack [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 06:15:37 PM  
img520.imageshack.us

 
Mercutio74 2008-11-26 06:22:38 PM  
Godscrack:

Where the hell did that come from?

 
Bad_Seed 2008-11-26 06:22:59 PM  
That's nothing. Just wait until the President-Elect starts inviting people over for Eid ul-Fitr.

 
Great_Milenko 2008-11-26 06:28:50 PM  
It's better than I expected. I wouldn't have been surprised if they had an easter bunny on them.

 
T.M.S. [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 06:31:46 PM  
Shalom biatches.

 
ABQGOD 2008-11-26 06:40:04 PM  
Bad_Seed: That's nothing. Just wait until the President-Elect starts inviting people over for Eid ul-Fitr.

Win.

I was waiting for some Kwanzaa joke, but you win instead.

 
McBotulism 2008-11-26 06:40:24 PM  
Schmendrick.

 
Krayon 2008-11-26 07:10:54 PM  
www.whitehouse.gov
/link (dropped like it's) hot

 
Sodium Benzoate 2008-11-26 07:34:34 PM  
meat0918: As long as they don't serve this at the banquet


//Screwed up yesterday with this image, so I need to redeem myself.


Reminds me of the black history month cotton ball sale at Wallgreens

 
burndtdan 2008-11-26 07:34:46 PM  
i couldn't imagine somebody like osama bin laden understanding the joy of hanukkah.

 
NYZooMan 2008-11-26 08:52:47 PM  
All part of the war on Hanukkah .

 
Hand Banana 2008-11-26 09:15:38 PM  
It's a Hanukkah tree.

 
sarcastrophe 2008-11-26 09:45:19 PM  
Ah yes. My favorite time of the year! All the religions (and anti-religious) start bickering over why their bastardization of the winter solstice is the only true bastardization of the winter solstice.

IO SATURNALIA biatchES!

 
Bhasayate [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 10:05:04 PM  
they gave bushy the job and he wrote this on quickcardmaker 1.3 ....


Marry Chrismiss anda Happe Nu Yeer!

PS - hav a gud hannaka and ramadanan and quantza to

Teh Witehowse

 
Bestbank Tiger 2008-11-26 10:07:21 PM  
W = epic fail.

 
Lawnchair 2008-11-26 10:17:06 PM  
sarcastrophe: Ah yes. My favorite time of the year! All the religions (and anti-religious) start bickering over why their bastardization of the winter solstice is the only true bastardization of the winter solstice.

IO SATURNALIA biatchES!


Freaking Saturnalians. "Wicked Solstice" (said in a Boston accent version of wikahhd) is the appropriate term.

/ Remember the Reason for the Season!
// the Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.5 degrees from the ecliptic.

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 10:44:35 PM  
At least it's not as bad as the time he sent a Ramadan Ham to his Muslim friends.

 
liberalish 2008-11-26 10:54:55 PM  
logging in on blackberry

 
King Something [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 11:42:48 PM  
Jesus Christ.

 
Burn98 2008-11-27 01:03:02 AM  
We need to have an exorcism to remove all the demons of stupidity after the Bushes leave.

www.cc.gatech.edu

 
MeGoWeGo 2008-11-27 10:23:14 AM  
Here's the text since article was nuked...


Whoops! A picture of a Christmas tree is not the first thing you would expect to see on an invitation to an event celebrating Hanukkah, but that is exactly what recipients of invitations to this year's White House Hanukkah reception initially got in the mail.

The invitation sent to American Jewish leaders on behalf of the President and First Lady, requesting "the pleasure of your company at a Hanukkah reception," bore an image of a Clydesdale horse drawn cart, carrying the White House Christmas tree, with a Christmas wreath-adorned White House in the background.
A card sent to Jewish leaders had a distinctly Yuletide flavor.

Mrs. Bush's press secretary, Sally McDonough, attributed the snafu to a "staff mistake" in not printing separate cards for the different White House holiday events, as has been the custom in years past. "Mrs. Bush is apologetic, It is just something that fell through the cracks," she said, referring to the role of the First Lady's office in sending out the invitations.

 
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