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November 28, 2008 | 2:28 pm

White House confuses Chanukah and Christmas

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Oy Vey.

The White House has done it again when making the obligatory gesture of respect toward Jewish holidays. Last year, President Bush wished Jews a happy Rosh Hashanah a week early. This year his holiday event staff accidentally (I assume) sent out Chanukah invitations to American Jewish leaders that included a Christmas tree on the card:

The message reads that the couple “requests the pleasure of your company at a Hanukkah reception,” written beneath an image of a Clydesdale horse hauling a Christmas fir along the snow-dappled drive to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

And, no, it is not a Hanukkah bush. A close look at the wagon reveals the message “White House Christmas Tree 2008.”

In the background, the White House windows are festooned with Christmas wreaths.

The incongruity of the message did not go unnoticed.

“It’s absolutely bizarre to receive an invite to the White House for Hanukkah in a Christmas format,” said one person who was invited. “They should have consulted with their chief of protocol before sending this out. This belongs right in the ‘Weird But True’ column.”

Charlie Brown’s signing “Oh Christmas Tree” after the jump.

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So much for all the Jewish White House staff and advisers and cabinet members. All good American Americans, don’t get me wrong, but when I say that these kinds of people are useless and irrelevant from the point of view of Jewish participation in politics or for the protection of Jewish interests, that’s what I mean. This is an innocuous example but ther are more important ones.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/28/08 at 5:26 pm

Ben:
    chill out man.

Comment by bill Pearlman on 11/30/08 at 9:40 am

Consider me chilled. It does not bother me at all. It’s not offensive because I take it from where it comes. I see it as does the OU (Orthodox Union) Institute for Public Affairs does, in a release http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/weblog_single/46699 which scolds anyone who made fun or took offense at the card.

Please re-read my post and don’t read anything into it. All I am saying is that when people say Kissinger/Rove/Wolfowitz/Bernanke/Emanuel etc. are Jews and therefore provide Jews/Israel/Zionists with some kind of access or influence or representation, I laugh at the naivete of both the views that that is a good or a bad thing. I know that that is the farthest thing from their minds or the administration’s. In my experience the reverse is usually true, and for that reason although I voted for Gore I was not happy about voting for Lieberman.

Meanwhile, the White House has apologized for the staff error that caused the mixup as in this report from UPI, stating that the intended cards showed a menora given to the White House in the Truman administration.

blank stare blank stare ommmmmmmmm… blank stare blank stare

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/30/08 at 4:39 pm

The idiocy of the Bush Administration knows no bounds.  Thankfully his disastrous Presidency will end soon.

Comment by The Web Guy on 12/01/08 at 1:57 am

Good thing Kwanzikah comes before the Inauguration this year.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 12/01/08 at 6:01 pm

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