every year that Clinton was president there was the lighting of the Xmas tree in

[flordehinojos]

Washington. C-Span would transmit a live feed of that event. the 1st year the bushit was president that tradition was still there (even when he had already drained all the Xmas spirit out of it), and the second year he was president that tradition was also still there even when the event was guarded from terrorists by his paranoid mind and no Xmas spirit was present in it...

I don't recall Xmas celebrations being televised in from DC thereafter, and I think there certainly have been none this year. Am I wrong? What has the arrogant shit done with Xmas, its spirit and the lighting of the trees, etc?

[sandnsea]

1. Dec 7, it was done

Scroll down to videos on the right

http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/2006/#

I don't know whether it was televised anywhere or what. It's all I can do to stomach Laura for the White House Christmas and that's always been one of my favorite things to watch during the holidays.

[flordehinojos]

2. hi. thanks for the post.

don't think i can stomach the bushes either--they seem to ruin everything for a great many people.

i used to love to watch those Christmas things from the white house when the Clintons were there.
These days the white house is a paranoid bubble... a festive mood just simply doesn't exude from the bushes and because t.v. is too transparent maybe the television stations axed whatever may have been coming from there. i don't know. my t..v--even in switching from channel to another--had nothing coming out of the white house. perhaps we are now getting to the real bottom truth of the bushes they don't believe in anything except in the bushes themselves.

uuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhh!

[Hippo_Tron]

3. I remember it in 2003 and thinking this would be more enjoyable if the President wasn't a dipshit

[flordehinojos]

4. one of those years 2001, 2002, or 2003 (shortly after 9/11/01) he celebrated Xmas in a war memorial

museum... i can't remember if it was in a civil war museum in Washington, or a WWI museum in Washington, i think it was a civil war museum and i remembe thinking, this isn't right. Xmas and wars are so diametrically opposed. it was sickening--the theme for the celebration became war, war, and more war...not love, forgiveness, joy or hope.