[susiek]

Good for Laura. She rocks!

[orionblamblam]

> yule card with a Scripture

BWAAAHAHAHAAAA! Anybody else catch the irony here?

It's like a Hannukah card with verses from the Rig Veda...

[sgtbono2002]

The ACLU has plans to sue the White House for using their Franking privileges to pursue their Christian agenda.

Sarcasm

[Oreo Kookey]

A President and his wife who walk the walk, and talk the talk. What more could be ask.

[GeekDejure]

Psalms 0:0 "Thank God for our open borders" !!!

[paudio]

Mary Evans Seeley, author of "Season's Greetings From the White House: The Collection of Presidential Christmas Cards, Messages and Gifts."

I'd like to know how many presidents write Merry Christmas instead of Season's Greetings... According to the article, Coolidge wrote Merry Christmas.

[frog_jerk_2004]

A holiday card with a Bible verse.

LIBs: The nerve! He is disenfranchaising millions of Americans! He is not being tolerant! Let us burn down the White House like the British!!!! YAOWARGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[Gumdrop]

Such a class act. They choose a verse from the Psalms, thus including the Jewish part of our population in the greetings. Ain't it sweet to have believers in the WH?

[deport]

President and Mrs. Bush highlight the Red Room of the White House in the 2004 White House Christmas card. Designed by Cindi Holt of Fort Worth, Texas, the original oil on canvas painting shows the room decorated for the holidays with a cranberry topiary and a glowing fireplace.

The inscription inside the card reads:

Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. Psalm 95:2 (NIV)

May songs of joy fill your home with warmth and your heart with happiness this holiday season. 2004

President and Mrs. Bush will send out more than 2 million Christmas cards this year to friends, family and foreign dignitaries. The cards, bearing a Crawford, Texas postmark, will be mailed on Friday, November 26, 2004.

[shield]

First lady Laura Bush supervises the card selection. She picked cards with Bible verses when her husband was governor and has continued to do so in the White House.

First Lady Laura Bush really really gets it...Thank You, Mrs. Bush. ;o)

[tall_tex]

ping..

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bump for later. Thanks!

[wildbill]

Unless I've forgotten all my Sunday School teaching, Psalms is from the pre-Christian part of the Bible.

Therefore it shouldn't offend any of the 'people of the Book'--Christians, Jews or Muslims.

Bhuddists and Taoists are ecumenical, so I guess that leaves the atheists and ACLU to foam at the mouth.

I hope Santa brings them a lump of coal for Christmas.

[Kuksool]

The ACLU is probably enraged at a public official using his position to authorize a bible verse on govt greeting cards. I wouldn't be surprised if they do sue.

[Polyxene]

We got ours. It is beautiful, and it was great to see scripture quoted. BTW -- the envelope had a regular stamp, and it was postmarked, "Crawford, TX". No franking privileges here.

[Bella_Bru]

I thought last year's or the year before had part of one of the Psalms as well. Nice card, I still have mine. But that Ebay thing sounds good.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Why does the Dallas Morning News consider this news? President Bush has quoted a passage from the Old Testament on every official Christmas card he has sent since reaching the White House. Here's an FR post from 2001 that says that the 2001 White House Christmas card quoted the Book of Psalms: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/587487/posts

BTW, I received a White House Christmas card this year, and the picture on the website doesn't begin to do it justice.

[Recovering_Democrat]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

We have received a card from the President EVERY Christmas of his Presidency....EVERY YEAR the card has contained a Bible verse.

2001: "Thy face, Lord, do I seek: I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!" (Psalm 27:8, 13)

2002: "For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all generations." (Psalm 100:5)* side note about 2002: we also got a card from Governor Jeb Bush and THAT card had the same scripture! :)

2003: "You have granted me life and loving kindness; and your care has preserved my spirit." (Job 10:12)

The 2004 card is described above.

This is not a "new" trend for President Bush. He has been consistent all four years of his presidency.