Republicans upset because Obama

The rest of that headline was entirely unnecessary.

Relatively Obscure: Republicans upset because Obama

The rest of that headline was entirely unnecessary.

Yeah, but if that standard was upheld, the Politics tab would just be line after line of Republicans upset because Obama.

FirstNationalBastard: Yeah, but if that standard was upheld, the Politics tab would just be line after line of Republicans upset because Obama.

And just think how much of value would be lost.

"Republicans upset because Obama doesn't mention God in Thanksgiving address."

Well, I suppose he could have mentioned Ganesha or Vishnu.

GOPers are all whiners and bedwetters. Has Speaker Boner started crying about it yet?

Just when I think "conservatives" have reached maximum levels of pussitude...

Seriously, why are you guys such insecure whiny biatches?

But really the righteous and pure people take the moral high ground and mention Pelor.

NFA: "Republicans upset because Obama doesn't mention God in Thanksgiving address."

Well, I suppose he could have mentioned Ganesha or Vishnu.

Thor or Nothing!

/well, Odin, too. And maybe Thunderstrike. But that's it, dammit!

Thanksgiving is Christianity's fifth highest holiday, after Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and the Fourth of July. Of course an atheist Muslim like 0bama is going to try to secularize it. I'm just glad this clown is a almost out of office and we can elect a good strong conservative Christian to set this country straight!

No Tom Servo? I am outraged.

I'd joking say that Republicans should make this an election issue, but the average Christian is so whiny and somehow so oppressed that they'd actually take the time to be offended by this if the GOP told them they should.

He didn't mention Buddha or Amaterasu either. My Kraut-Mick-Nip self is offen--oh wait, no I'm not. Because my own faith doesn't need validation from someone I've never met...

...Tom Servo isn't real?

I just...I don't even know what to say...

I wrote all of those letters...

Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday?

ManateeGag: Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday?

Why not? They celebrate Festivus and Ostra.

They followed the traditional pardoning of the White House Turkey with a visit to a local food bank to distribute food packages, accompanied by daughters Sasha and Malia.

Selfish assholes, not mentioning God in the address! What kind of values are they teaching those children??

ManateeGag: Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday?

Ok so not the holiday per se, but this holiday also has a strong theme of pagans had something first but then the christians took it in the name of their lord.

Bad idea, pilgrim.

ManateeGag: Thanksgiving is a Christian holiday?

Indirectly. Arguably, it's more a holy day of the American civil religion, which includes some elements derived from (and sometimes consistent with) Christianity; and, in so far as the Tea Party are ACR fundamentalists, the complaints makes some anthropological sense.

Philosophically... yeah, it's easiest to write off the whiners as a pack of ignorant idiots.

CavalierEternal: ...Tom Servo isn't real?

I just...I don't even know what to say...

I wrote all of those letters...

Don't believe the lies!

In fact, I say we get him to defeat 0bama in '12!

Of course they are because Thanksgiving and the United States are only for supernaturalists, and preferably, Christian supernaturalists.

What idiots.

Thanksgiving is an ancient Pagan ritual.

when did Thanksgiving turn into a Chrstian holiday? Isn't it a celebration of the nation, most commonly depicted as a multi-cultural, multi-religious gathering? Making it Christian seems kind of antithetical to the whole idea.

Of course thanksgiving is a christian holiday. Here in Australia, we celebrate it by throwing digeridoos at bandicoots and singing cold chisel songs intersparsed with hymns. Actually, it started with the Lutherans back in Germany when Martin Luther King nailed the Emancipation Proclamation onto the church door, thereby freeing the Jews.

IlGreven

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I'm confused: What does God have to do with Thanksgiving, again?

I'm reading over some of the older presidential Thanksgiving addresses now. Almost all of them mention God, even President Obama's addresses from 2009, 2010, and hey, wait a minute:

As we gather in our communities and in our homes, around the table or near the hearth, we give thanks to each other and to God for the many kindnesses and comforts that grace our lives. Let us pause to recount the simple gifts that sustain us, and resolve to pay them forward in the year to come.

How the fark is that not mentioning God? It must not be batshiat crazy fundie enough or something.

IlGreven: I'm confused: What does God have to do with Thanksgiving, again?

I have it on good authority that Jeebus made the pies at the first Tday. An apple crumb, I believe.

God mentioned in the 2011 Thanksgiving Proclamation, too. (new window)

Haters gonna hate, I suppose.