WH Fails to Release Easter Proclamation

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Never noticed the double standard here.

Politicians are allowed to talk about religion.

But the religion is not allowed to talk about the politician.

Can’t believe I didn’t notice that before.
 
Ireland’s president issued a statement for St. Patrick’s Day.

Source:
stpatricksday.org.au/mary-mcaleese/

For this observer, the standard isn’t whether someone acknowledges Muslim holidays. It’s whether one acknowledges Muslim holidays without acknowledging Christian ones. In Ireland, it makes sense to make an acknowledgement of a Christian day such as St. Patrick’s Day. In the United States, in makes sense to make an acknowledgement of Easter.

Again, I’m not saying he is a closet Muslim, but I am starting to wonder. President Obama isn’t doing himself any favors by ignoring Easter yet acknowledging Muslim holidays.

I’m at the point that I am not surprised people suspect him of being a Muslim. I’m now in the camp of the ‘undecided’.
 
I’m surprised no one’s talking about what the Pastor was preaching about. 🤷

Yeah, cool, he went to church on Easter, but didn’t the Pastor get all ‘Jeremiah Wright’ crazy on him? Talking about America being racist and the KKK? lol…I don’t know…Seems to me whenever he does go to a ‘christian church’ its some hateful racist kinda church…I mean, does he seek that stuff out? Or… ??? 🤷

It just seems there’d be … so many *other *things… to talk about on Easter Sunday.
 
MugenOne said:
Maybe because Obama is a Muslim?
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Based on what Obama has said in the past about Christianity I do not think he is a Christian, but I can not judge what his heart believes. I do not think Obama is a Muslim. I think Obama is a Universalist/Agnostic.
 
Abyssinia said:
…I think Obama is a Universalist/Agnostic.
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This is what I believe him to be and when my co-worker said he was a closet Muslim, I told him I thought he might be agnostic.

He seems to go out of his way to avoid appearing to have Christian sympathies and goes out of his way to show he has sympathies towards Muslims. Does that make him a closest Muslim? I’m undecided, and probably will remain so unless he acknowledges in word and action that he is or is not a Muslim.
 
Obama has held an Easter prayer breakfast each year of his presidency, something that none of his predecessors have done. So can we therefore conclude that he is the first real Christian president, and the previous 43 were all secret Muslims?
 
I had a beautiful Easter in spite of this! 😉

My faith is not dependent on what the President says or doesn’t say. Easter is not a federal holiday…

Obama will be criticized regardless of what he does. Had he issued an Easter Proclamation, his words would have been denigrated as insincere, etc.
 
I respectfully disagree, JC.

When you make a practice of issuing statements only directed towards Muslims on Muslim holidays, but issue a blanket, non-specific statement on the major Christian holiday (Easter 2010), and then completely fail to acknowledge the holiday altogether the subsequent year, at the very least, that is poor politicking.

I don’t think the President is a Muslim, but I do think he is does what he believes will win points with his progressive party base, which often means riding the politically correct, post-Christian wave.
 
I am sorry, but I guess I fail to feel the same significance to this “news” as the OP.

Do I need ANY president to tell me it’s Easter? No. I had probably my best Easter ever this year as I was baptized and confirmed.

Do I feel hurt that he announces Muslim holidays? No, not really. He’s a politician and he’s pandering to a group in which there are tensions. Also, maybe some other folks ignorant to Islam might have never heard about these holidays. Thus, if the President announces them, they might google the holidays and learn something. Or not. I don’t think it really matters.

But, it does seem that Obama is picking and choosing who he pleases. As a politician, there are costs and maybe benefits to what he’s doing.

Anyhoo, I hope all of you had a blessed Easter whether you voted for Obama or not.
 
Yes. I am trying to make it clear that I am on the fence regarding this issue.
 
kmtroy04 said:
I am sorry, but I guess I fail to feel the same significance to this “news” as the OP.

Do I need ANY president to tell me it’s Easter? No. I had probably my best Easter ever this year as I was baptized and confirmed.
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This was my thought…does anyone NEED the POTUS to inform the nation…“Hey Guys…it’s Easter time again!!!”

Easter happens in the heart…not because a politician states “The XYZ holiday celebration is upon us!”
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Publisher said:
kmtroy04;7803064:
I am sorry, but I guess I fail to feel the same significance to this “news” as the OP.

Do I need ANY president to tell me it’s Easter? No. I had probably my best Easter ever this year as I was baptized and confirmed.
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This was my thought…does anyone NEED the POTUS to inform the nation…“Hey Guys…it’s Easter time again!!!”

Easter happens in the heart…not because a politician states “The XYZ holiday celebration is upon us!”
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Publisher said:
kmtroy04;7803064:
I am sorry, but I guess I fail to feel the same significance to this “news” as the OP.

Do I need ANY president to tell me it’s Easter? No. I had probably my best Easter ever this year as I was baptized and confirmed.
QUOTE]

This was my thought…does anyone NEED the POTUS to inform the nation…“Hey Guys…it’s Easter time again!!!”

Easter happens in the heart…not because a politician states “The XYZ holiday celebration is upon us!”
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I’m sorry, but you guys and gals really miss the point. No, no one needs to tell me its Easter, but to publicly acknowledge the Sacred day is to show unity with Christians and Americans. Which is the real problem.
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Alan55 said:
This is an issue manufactured by FOX news and right-wing commentators to try to further their ridiculous campaign to convince Christian voters that Obama is unworthy of the presidency because he’s somehow not really a Christian.

mediamatters.org/blog/201104260004?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MediaMattersForAmerica-All+(Media+Matters+for+America
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He didn’t issue a statement. That is a fact.

And Mediamatters is an unbiased source? :rotfl:
 
Some of Obama’s remarks at the Easter Prayer Breakfast that he sponsored:

I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason -– because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there’s something about the resurrection – something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective…

But then comes Holy Week. The triumph of Palm Sunday. The humility of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. His slow march up that hill, and the pain and the scorn and the shame of the cross.

And we’re reminded that in that moment, he took on the sins of the world – past, present and future – and he extended to us that unfathomable gift of grace and salvation through his death and resurrection.

In the words of the book Isaiah: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

This magnificent grace, this expansive grace, this “Amazing Grace” calls me to reflect. And it calls me to pray. It calls me to ask God for forgiveness for the times that I’ve not shown grace to others, those times that I’ve fallen short. It calls me to praise God for the gift of our son – his Son and our Savior.

And that’s why we have this breakfast. Because in the middle of critical national debates, in the middle of our busy lives, we must always make sure that we are keeping things in perspective. Children help do that. (Laughter.) A strong spouse helps do that. But nothing beats scripture and the reminder of the eternal.
 
Alan55 said:
Some of Obama’s remarks at the Easter Prayer Breakfast that he sponsored:

I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason -– because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there’s something about the resurrection – something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective…

But then comes Holy Week. The triumph of Palm Sunday. The humility of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. His slow march up that hill, and the pain and the scorn and the shame of the cross.

And we’re reminded that in that moment, he took on the sins of the world – past, present and future – and he extended to us that unfathomable gift of grace and salvation through his death and resurrection.

In the words of the book Isaiah: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

This magnificent grace, this expansive grace, this “Amazing Grace” calls me to reflect. And it calls me to pray. It calls me to ask God for forgiveness for the times that I’ve not shown grace to others, those times that I’ve fallen short. It calls me to praise God for the gift of our son – his Son and our Savior.

And that’s why we have this breakfast. Because in the middle of critical national debates, in the middle of our busy lives, we must always make sure that we are keeping things in perspective. Children help do that. (Laughter.) A strong spouse helps do that. But nothing beats scripture and the reminder of the eternal.
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Nice comments. Where did you find them?
 
I am re-posting this because some people continue to cite sources such as media matters that play games with the facts.

News agencies are using the term proclamation incorrectly. Proclamations are generally not used for holiday purposes. This error allows the White House or other liberal new agencies to deceptively claim that Bush never issued an Easter proclamation. Of course he didn’t issue an “Easter Proclamation”. The formal document is called a Presidential Message. And Bush 43 issued a “Presidential Message” on Easter every year of his presidency.

Link to Bush’s 2008 message:
georgewbush-whitehouse.archiv…/20080321.html
 
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