I guess the president missed the memo. At his final press conference of 2004, and just days before Christmas, Bush unintentionally may have inserted himself in a deep religio-political controversy.<\/p>\n
Here’s how Bush ended today’s press conference<\/a>:<\/p>\n “Listen, thank you all very much. I wish everybody — truly wish everybody a happy holidays.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oops. That’s not what Bush was supposed to say at all. Christians, presumably including Bush, are supposed to actually boycott<\/a> commercial enterprises that dare to wish people “happy holidays” when they should be saying “Merry Christmas.” Indeed, it was supposed to be Bush’s election-day success that freed Christians from concerns over non-Christians’ feelings in the first place.<\/p>\n When they’re not calling on boycotts, some anti-“happy holidays” crusaders are actually insisting that Christians are the victims of a “reverse apartheid<\/a>.” There’s even a new group called the Committee to Save Merry Christmas<\/a>, whose sole purpose is to prevent people from wishing others a “happy holidays” this time of year. As the CtSMC argues:<\/p>\n “A covert and deceptive war has been waged on Christmas to remove any mention of it from the public square during the Christmas season.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And now their beloved president, whom they sometimes believe was chosen directly by God to lead, has wished everyone a “happy holidays.” Bush, apparently, has joined in on this “covert and deceptive war” — and he’s on the side of the secularists.<\/p>\n So, religious right activists, what are you prepared to do about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I guess the president missed the memo. At his final press conference of 2004, and just days before Christmas, Bush unintentionally may have inserted himself in a deep religio-political controversy. Here’s how Bush ended today’s press conference: “Listen, thank you all very much. I wish everybody — truly wish everybody a happy holidays.” Oops. That’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}