Your name says it all about your comment, and my name is what I think of you - Happy Holidays

Yes, George Bush, thanks for this wonderful economy you left us. Unfunded wars accompanied by tax cuts have a way of catching up with you.

The Beev is just a hateful troll, Merry Christmas to all.

How ironic that when it's the Occupy protests, the flippant conservative response is 'get a job', 'no one else is responsible for you' and 'stop whining'; when it's the President, it's 'where's my job', 'where's my handout', etc.

President Obama didn't break the economy, and overall, while things aren't great, they ARE a lot better now than they were at the beginning of 2009. My holiday wish for my conservative countrymen is a little consistency, and a little more honesty, please.

Get a life.

The tree is the ONLY thing that gets his approval. His supercommittee failed and his Change has failed us also. I'll be so glad when this guy is gone.

Beev Spam isn't very healthy you could find better alternatives...Or how about you follow your leaders advice and work harder...Or maybe you should get the internet shut off then you could eat a little bettter...Oh that's right you are a lying hypocrit..If you were poor you would support the party to the left that doesn't cater to the top 1% as much...But like I said you are lying anyways...........Happy Holidays.

Will of course you will be glad when he is gone you are a old bald rich white guy from down south that is lacking empathy and humanity.....just sayin'

"Turkey served this Xmas at The White House." Who were they referring to as the turkey?

I lvoe you all. Here is my Xmas Jingle to you: "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg..."

I like the Obamas. They deserve everything they have worked hard for, just as everyone in the country deserves what they work hard for (or not work for)

I'm so glad I'm not a politician. Seems people will hate you just because you can't make their life better. I'm glad I realized that I'm in control of my own life and if I want change, I make my own change. Sitting around waiting for it is not what Obama wanted us to do. I feel bad for all those people that include hate as a part of their lives.

Chris, that was a well thought out post. I wish more people would see things the way you do and realize that they have to have the motivation and will to help themselves. Waiting for others to make their lives better-whether it be republicans, democrats, etc, etc,- will lead to nothing but disappointment. You're right that a politician will always have a bunch of haters.

In yesterday's Presidential radio address and Thanksgiving prayer, President Obama did not thank God even once.

I moved my children to the living room and read to them George Washington's first Thanksgiving Address in 1881, where President Washington gave thanks to God 13 times. I urged my children to remember President Washington's Thanksgiving prayer, and disregard the Thanksgiving prayer of President Obama.

This article about the arrival of a "Christmas" tree at the White House showed a picture of a wagon with a sign saying "Christmas" tree, and the caption under another picture showing Michelle and the Obama girls stating they are welcoming the "Christmas" tree. In this article the tree is not called a "Holiday" tree. I hope this year the Obamas are consistent to this article and call Christmas "Christmas" throughout the season.

God please bless the less fortunate. Thank you dear Lord for the greatest of gifts, the birth of your Son and our Salvation.

There are alot of people with there hands out for the Government to do for us. But we all have to help one another and the non politicans still need to follow and keep the people we have elected in line. This is so they won't fall into the good ole boy routine of Washington. They were elected to do a job for each of us and need to be kept reminded of this. They can't if we all mind our business and make our changes and let the world pass by. We can't keep our heads in the sand and let what is going on in washington go. This Country was founded on GOD and with God. Because of a few we can't even show that we beleive for fear someone will not like it. Where does it end?

I am curious about where the notion that this country was founded on God comes from. I assume that those who say that mean 'Christianity', certainly not the Hebrew God or the God of Islam, only the real true god. I think the guarantee of the separation of Church and State was one of the best ideas of the founders. There have been a lot of folks and a lot of governments messed up pretty bad by religion, imho. Let folks believe as they will, worship as they wish, and pray as they believe. And let that inform their values and their politics. But please, please don't expect me to live and behave according to YOUR beliefs. Let's make America free of religious bigotry...please.

Obama did mention God earlier in the week in a written Thanksgiving Day message:

"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,"

source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-omits-god-thanksgiving-address-riles-critics/story?id=15028644#.TtCq24Isbh4

Everyone knows Obama's personal religious beliefs, in fact, he has taken criticisms in that area as well. Thanksgiving is a holiday when Americans express our thanks and acknowledge our blessings, as Obama did. I find it humorous that the only ones that seem extremely offended are loving 'Christians'.

Thank You, God Bless You!

President Obama; concluding his 2011 Thanksgiving Day greeting to America

Of course 2012 around the corner, the Oblablah's have to bring the spawn out for a photo opp with Babe the OX,

....eeenie, meanee, mineee howiseeit.

Lies, all lies, you must be a Faux watcher to believe those lies. Get educated!

Strange, I don't recall there being an evergreen tree decorated with lights and ornaments with presents underneath the branches anywhere in the Biblical account of Jesus' birth.....

You are a very uneducated person.

Didn't the White House officially call it a "Holiday Tree" last year???

What a spiteful thing to say. The Obama's are Christians, they do not despise or hate the word Christmas. Just shows how ignorant and brainwashed some people can be by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh!

Go to: youtube.com/watch?v=UnmS_vULPxw Now tell me with a straight face that Obama's a Christian. I think not!

@ Impatient Girl: no, it was Christmas and Christmas trees last year at the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/01/behind-scenes-video-white-house-christmas-2010-simple-gifts

Why don't you try a little harder to get over your own bigotry?

Wow. As election draws near, and everything changes, but still remains the same.....The O-trolls are out in numbers. But you know.....the taxpaying public has already got Obama's number. Nothing more to be said. 2012.

It's a sad shame how bad you people are brainwashed by your cult ( Fox Nation ).. When I was growing up christian I was taught that a christmas tree was a pagan symbol and now you robots are convinced that you are anti-christian if you don't celebrate the pagan version of the holidays.....The Easter bunny,Mothers day etcetera were created by the malls so you would have reasons to buy presents every month...And the Obamas are not muslim...

Fights: Are you saying that if I dress up as Freddy Krueger then I am Freddy Kreuger ? I didn't look at your link because I figure it's gotta be the one of a younger Obama in traditional Muslim garb when he was trying it on for some stupid reason...That has been explained to the rational people in the world but you probably think Elvis is still Alive too....Dontcha ?

Impatient Girl: If that is what Fox News toldja then it must be so huh? Holiday Tree I kinda like the ring o' that...

People, LEAVE the residents of our White House alone on this non-issue. (damn.) If they want to celebrate the coming of Kwaanzaa Klaus, LET THEM. They are a decent family.

I heard Jesus Christ belly laugh just now, he had milk coming out his nose... He says "yeah, I distinctly remember us Holy people decorating our Christmas Tree with shiny stuff, and when we ran out of working blinking bulbs, we headed on down to WalMart on our brontosaurus bone-cars for an Xmas Haul...BWAAhahahaha 'merkins are such maroons... such twisted embezzles....

Actually wrong Philly. Go look for yourself! The truth will set you free.

LOL, Kwaanzaa Klaus. That made me giggle. The creativity of these comments are more interesting to read than the articles themselves. :o)

if you go to you tube you will see where he said he was born in Kenya when he was elected as an Illinois senator or was that just another lie.

Did anyone see the report that said that people who watch Fox news know less than people who don't watch news at all? I see why they did a study on it after reading some of these posts.

@Fights - I watched that video and I think the President is right in not feeling the Bible to be what we need modern politics to follow. I've read the Bible through many times and I would hate to see our country follow many things in it.
Jesus even taught that there is a separation between God and Politics in Mark 12:17.

There were no fir trees at baby Jesus' birth. He did receive presents, but don't most of us on our birthdays?

Jesus also taught us to Love our Neighbor, not hated them and wish them dead because they don't think the same. How unchristian-like you are.

Read your Bibles again and find the true meaning of Christmas, not the greedy I want more presents marketing scam that it has become.

Did you know Christmas was moved to Winter Solstice because they had trouble getting the pagans to worship it. Christians and the churches have been remaking Christmas since almost the time it began.

I am quite ashamed of those of you that preach hate and call yourselves Christians.

@thomasyuma - Barack Obama Sr. was born in Kenya I believe. So many of you keep confusing our President for his father whom he really didn't know. His father and mother separated when he was like 2 years old or something. His father was Muslim, his step-father was Muslim, but he is Christian. You can make up stories about him all you want, but he's shown his birth certificate and that's that. He was born in Hawaii. Please stop listening to rhetoric and learn to look up things from reliable sources before speaking. Thank you.

Fox poisoned their weak minded retard followers, Fox is fools news.

I don't really care if the President calls it a Christmas tree, or a "holiday tree". The thing that I find most offensive is his arrogant self-righteousness and his apparent lack of concern for those suffering from the economic despair that he has presided over. Obama's single term in office will leave an ignominious legacy as the most polarizing and incompetent president in our nation's history.

You obviously are Republican. You must not a job either but your blaming President Obama for that and you got confused because it was because of the eight year "Bush Reign of Ruin". We still wish you a Happy Holiday and perhaps this year you can get a job knocking on doors and asking people to vote for the Republicans that made you lose your job.

Do you mean Kwanza ? Because a Quonset is a corrigated steel building..That was the trademark name by the first company that built them for military purposes...They are the ones that look like a barrel split down the middle and layed on its side...But you don't know all that because Fox news didn't tell you.... Right ?

"maybe they are gearing up for Quonset".. What? Like a hut?

That's what I was talking about in my comment the old military huts...These jokers are something else...That's why they think these GOP candidates are okay....They just don't know anything unless Fox News tells them about it and still it can only be simple one-liners repeated over and over again until it soaks into their pea-brains...Too Funny

The Uneducated Madden,Yes the loss of Jobs is completely obozo'z and the rest of the terroists and thugs in the democrat party.Seven of the eight years MR. President Bush was in office were very prosporus for the country.then pelosi,frank dodd took it downhill when the dems took control . You are obviously a democrat because you speak without a brain

William - Does the name GRORGE SOROS mean anything to you? Maybe you should educate yourself before you attempt to educate others...

Soros has much better intentions than the Koch brothers. Re-educate yourself!

clear your eyes, The Koch bros employe thousands

soros steals from millions

oh gee clinton harry reid and the other dems caused the collapse when they made banks give loans for houses that people couldnt afford and i hope you whiny democrat leftys try to insult me for my lac of caps and punctuation i have 2 degrees one a doctorate all you can do is try to demean people if they dont agree with you

soros, the man that enjoyed "hunting" fellow jews with his nazi brothers has better intentions than who?

You're an idiot. Christmas isn't the only holiday during December. Thousands of people celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc. I'm not offended when anyone says "Happy Holidays" to me because a) they don't know which holiday I celebrate and b) I don't believe in God anyway, therefore I have a level head about such things. Not everyone on Earth is a right wing Christian nutjob that thinks everyone should be just like them. Diversity is what makes our country great, and it's a shame that such a large group of people thinks that it should go away.

"Diversity is what makes our country great, and it's a shame that such a large group of people thinks that it should go away." And it's usually the people who celebrate made up holidays like Kwanzaa, that think christians are "right wing nutjobs". I say it take a nut-job to know a nut job, right wing or not...

You know, Happy Holidays is a "politically correct" term now, but in fact it has been around a very long time. Haven't you heard the old Christmas tune "Happy Holidays"? Best known sung by Steve & Edie. "Happy holidays, happy holidays, the merry bells keep ringing, happy holidays to you.....".

So many people take offense at it, yet, all it used to mean was Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. It was a greeting which encompassed the entire Christmas season. It now encompasses Christmas, Hanukkah and others, but so what? What is wrong with being respectful of each other's beliefs?

There are so many mean spirited, ill-mannered, and intolerant people nowadays.

Oh and Santa Claus isn't made up ? Are you serious ? And Far right-wingers which is what the whole GOP is now, are all nut-jobs...And to the rest of the rational thinking world that knows that the world wasn't covered by water 5000 years ago and some dude with a beard didn't load every species on the planet onto it they are whack-jobs too

SINCE WHEN WAS SANTA MADE UP????? Now you have spoiled my Christmas. Thanks a lot.

Sorry Val I had to respond to the person up there saying Kwanza was made up like 99% of christmas traditions aren't? Merry christmas, happy hannuka, happy new year etc. Or oh wait a sec how about I just say Happy Holidays ?

Any wish from anyone to be happy or merry, I can roll with that! :)

But....don't even bother trying to tell me the Easter bunny, tooth fairy, or leprechauns aren't real....then I'll know for sure you are some kind of fanatic. ;)

Gotta love the mall culture...Hail to the corporate oligarchy...

And that " people who celebrate Kwanza" statement was pretty outfront racist...I am glad sometimes that people hide behind computers making statements like that but other times it would be nice to know face to face who you are dealing with like in the good ole days they want back...But you can usualy spot them anyway they have some kinda' sticker on their truck or some pin on their hat or a t-shirt that gives them away for what they are inside....It is a shame that some people live with such unabashed hate in them...Maybe that is where some kinds of cancer comes from?

or a sticker on their volkswagon that says coexist, that is a cancer.

Um . . . Valeria B . . . I may have some bad news for you.

I would rather we vote for the person that can do the job the best, not what religion the person is.

I wouldn't hire a minister to do my taxes unless he/she was an accountant too. The right person for the job. Not someone that will preach hatred and make the world a worse place.

I hope everyone have a good holiday season, which includes Christmas. But doesn't exclude the other holidays of the year. I hope everyone have enough food to eat, a warm place to sleep, and is able to find work if they need it.

BA

It's keeping with TRADITION!

He's the most divisive president we've had in a long time... sympathizing with the OWS crowd, encouraging the hatred. :(

Impatient girl, Please give us your credentials. Obviously you must be an expert on presidential history.

You know, President Obama is far from perfect - there are a whole host of things that I disagree with him about. But the safety and future of the country is far too important to leave it to the buffoons currently competing in the GOP primary - philanderers, profiteers, opportunists, bigots and idiots literally at every turn. The only Republican candidate with the intelligence, experience and integrity to lead the nation is Jon Hunstman, and of course, he's polling dead last (because in Republican politics, intelligence, experience and integrity are seen as shortcomings, not as assets).

I supported President Obama in 2008 because he was the better choice then, and - unless a genuine miracle occurs - he'll easily be the better choice in 2012.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you.

Amen, Pacific NW Mark!!

Mr. Obama has created more of a hatred divide in this Country than anyone before him .... it will take us decades to undo the hatred he has instilled pitting one American against another. But, like you, I do not hate. AND, I do not say "Happy Holidays" for Christmas. I say MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I try to follow Christ's teachings also which naturally makes me lean to the left...You know about that whole camel and the needle thing and turn the other cheeck and feeding the 5000...And many others..I bet Jesus would vote to the left of the ticket too.....Don't get me wrong they are all pretty bad but one follows his ways more than the other by alot

Even if the current President is not the someone's choice, can we not have a little respect for the office, and the fact the man is the Commander In Chief and is indeed our President. Don't have to love him, just have a little respect, and leave his family out of it.

Like I said earlier, lots of mean spirited, ill-mannered and intolerant people nowadays.

I agree! Let's leave the children out of it. There is no need to spread hated during this time of the year. Or any time of the year. Alot of people have forgotten what Christmas stand for! Peace!!

Right Rose and Valerie, just like the Liberals left Sarah Palin's kids out of it, right? Talk to David Letterman about making sex jokes about Palin's 13 year old daughter. Liberals reap what they sow.

We are not in Kenya but I wish you would go find out.....

Man, the birthers can't even decide where he was born.

And christianity was in Kenya before it was here but I'll bet they don't celebrate the Anglo-Saxon Pagan Christmas anyway..

Naturally, if the President had cut the tree and dragged it there himself you'd accuse him of slumming. It doesn't matter what he does, does it? You'll attack President "Not a White Person" for anything no matter what.

And we know why.

Toasty that made no sense, which is par for your posts.

I can use smaller words if you're still having trouble.

But Toasty, Obama is half White, you know the half that hung around and raised him.