Lighting up the White House

[aikido15]

While thousands are being murdered in Iraq, Palestine, Haiti... George and Laura are decorating and partying...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/12/20041202-8.html

[Sannum]

1. They make me want to vomit.

The Inagural Hoe-down will be worse.:eyes:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. We could always

puke all over the parade route before the big show...

[disillusioned1]

2. Makes me wish

that part of the country (DC) would just fall into the Atlantic, never to be heard from again.

[murielm99]

4. Didn't they vote about 90% Democratic in the election?

Let's not drown them, please.

[disillusioned1]

6. Which Dem politicians in DC would you save?

Are there any with balls left? I don't hear them bitchin' about the election.

[Chipper Chat]

18. Joe Biden still has some bite...

John Conyers, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Barb Boxer, Harold Ford, Hillary, Ted Kennedy, Barak Obama (coming soon), Tim Roemer, and repubs John McCain, Dick Lugar, and Chuck Haegel for others.

[Valerie5555]

8. You bet and 2 of them were 2 people I knew indirectly 1 of whom voted for

Kerry somewhat reluctantly since he was disillusioned by *. Why should anyone advocate they suffer because of *'s antics.

[Straight Shooter]

5. They're making up for all of us who can't afford Christmas

Fact Sheet: White House Holiday Decorations

Volunteers 51

Garland 660 feet

Christmas Trees 41 trees

Wreaths 245

Bows 221

Lights 155,500 (total throughout complex)

Blue Room Tree

Lights 32,500

Balls 390 - Um, don't they mean "ornaments"?

Instrument ornaments 350

Guests touring the White House during the Holidays: 44,000

Guests attending receptions during the Holidays: 6,500

I wonder what this is costing the U.S. taxpayers. You can bet it's a lot more than the cost of a recount in Ohio.

:grr:

[For PaisAn]

14. Why don't they list the total cost!

Perhaps taxpayer money could be put to better use considering the state of our nation and the ongoing occupation of Iraq.

[bettyellen]

7. Is this like mrs cheney putting the star on the tree! Not!

She didn't even touch the fricken star it pissed me off sooo much that they showed footage of her not touching the star while reporting that she put it on.
Sorry, weird pet peeve!

[daleo]

9. Maybe she ordered a servant to do it.

In rich Republican speak ordering the servant to do something is the same thing as doing it yourself.

[bettyellen]

16. She stood next to the guy doing it while the report said she did it!!

[daleo]

20. So just a flat out media lie then?

It seems like they can't help themselves anymore - they lie even when it doesn't make a lick of sense to do so.

[Chipper Chat]

19. Maybe it was a gay star...

Hee hee

[Lex]

10. Well, the White House Christmas tree looks like phlegm

has been used as a decoration.

Stringy strands hanging down and snot layered on the tree. Ewwww.

[daleo]

11. A white blood cell from "Incredible Voyage"

It is going after Pickles! In the movie, they had better taste - nothing less than Rachel Welsh would do.

[Kali]

15. WTF is all over that tree??!!???

that looks disgusting

[Chipper Chat]

21. Well, I think it looks like something else, but....

I wont go there since this is a family forum.

[leftchick]

26. does it rhyme with...

germ? ;)

[BuelahWitch]

24. Ugliest Xmas Tree I ever saw n/t

[Benhurst]

12. Of course the White House has to be all decorated for Christmas.

They do it because ... I forget now.

Oh, yes, I remember now. They do it because it's The Rich People's House.

[Bouncy Ball]

13. I guess it's just me

but if I were living in the White House at this time, I'd tell people we decided to scale down dramatically to honor those who are serving and dying in Iraq and those who cannot afford to do as much at Christmas.

But if bush said that, he'd be ackowledging his part in the bad economy and if I were president I'd be doing everything in my power to HELP the American people.

[Benhurst]

29. And then there is always that other reason to scale down on

the Christmas decorations: good taste.

[Bouncy Ball]

30. No kidding.

I went to the link and read the list and absolutely recoiled at it. I thought *I* did a lot of decorating! Ha!

[RedCon1]

17. When you said "lighting up the whitehouse" I thought you meant

something else and I started to feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[Sparky 1]

23. LOL! That thought occurred to me, too! n/p

[grasswire]

22. I wonder how many trees Mrs. Kennedy had...

...in the WH. Forty-one seems a bit gauche.

[booksenkatz]

25. Gotta kick this in order to share that horrid tree pic w/the morning crew

I guess the WH was going for a snow look on that tree, but they failed miserably. Here in Michigan, I have a yard full of enormous blue spruces. When it snows, my trees don't remotely look snot-covered. The monstrosity that Dime Bag Laura is standing in front of is like something out of the nightmare before Christmas. Yecccchhh!

[llmart]

27. These people have no taste whatsoever.....

Whatever happened to the days of Jack and Jackie Kennedy - people who were cultured and had exquisite taste and brought culture to the American people and the White House? Now we have the Clampetts living there and we're all supposed to jump on the Nascar bandwagon. I have too much self-respect to lower myself to that level.

Let's bring back some dignity to this country, can we?

[KingChicken]

28. I'd like to really light up the White House...