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Originally Posted by skcin
No, I'm relatively sure that none of them had dog shaped topiaries all over the place. 
I'll draw the line for you. The country is at war. We are torn apart over this administation. Approval ratingas are very low. So put up a giant tree & decorate it, have 4 or 5 dinners (hopefully some for "regular" people as well as politicians and businessmen; and not all consisting of one of the most expensive ingredients) and toss some poinsettias around the House. You don't need to do more than that to give people a warm, cheerful holiday feeling. |
Again, people died in the admin.'s of Clinton, Bush I, RR, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, kennedy, etc. -- yet, they all did it too. I remember seeing newsreels of FDR and the WH at Christmas and the celebrations they had and they were, for the times, quite fancy despite the war and the depression. So, to me this admin. is doing nothing the others did not do. That speaks nothing to whether I, you, or anyone is correct in thinking it is in bad taste. I am just saying that if you think it is in bad taste for the reason that such a show is awful when people are dying for our country -- then you have to hate them all because they all did the same thing.
Interestingly, the WH always does the best when entertaining and decorating. So, why should this be any different
I think in the end, people just hate this because Bush is doing it.