Posted on 07/01/2015 1:23:02 PM PDT by markomalley
I write this post not as a partisan, but as an American. The White House should not ever be used as an icon or celebration for any particular political or even social cause or purpose, regardless of our personal belief on the rightness of that cause. It just shouldn't.
There are many reasons.
First there's whose house it is. It's the people's House which we happily and proudly present to every President to conduct his solemn business of leading our nation and for the protection, enjoyment, and relaxation of his family. It is not one person’s, administration’s, or particular group’s house to proclaim his or their particular views on any topic of social or public policy.
Second there's the nature of that great House itself. It is in itself—with no need for help or added flourish—an powerful icon of our nation and all it stands for. If you are proud of what happened on Friday, the White House itself, as well as the dignity of the Court's building, represents that simply because of the kind of government system each stands for. It's physicality and nobility should not be enlisted and used for other purposes. It is not a bumper sticker, banner, billboard, placard, or t-shirt and should not be used as one. This House is not our governmental equivalent of a google doodle.
This is not only true of the physical structure at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave itself, but its representation as well, such as in the current icon on the White House's twitter account.
Indeed, the White House is not to be used in such a way even when that purpose can be celebrated by all citizens.
You get my drift. Sending messages about such things is just not what the People's House is for. But those are each issues of good taste and propriety.
Last, it should certainly not be used to praise and celebrate any public policy issue that is so clearly divisive to our nation's populace, regardless of what that issue is and how righteous its celebrants believe its virtue. There will always be serious Americans who oppose any public policy change for serious and well-intentioned reasons. To treat their small bit of ownership of that house in that way is at best un-neighborly and insensitive and at worst, is a naked bid to rub their face in it.
Celebrate Friday's decision and do so wildly if you are inclined. But don't enlist the White House itself in that celebration. It's simply not what it's for.
Hardcore leftists (but I repeat myself) do not have brains wired in the same way as normal, fully functional people.
Does anyone know if he lit the White House Red, White and Blue for previous Independence days?
Worse, they’re treating it like a Black Panther hangout.
Just did a quick Google. Didn’t find any evidence of WH being lit in patriotic colors for the Fourth of July.
The current occupant makes me sick to my stomach
“First there’s whose house it is. It’s the people’s House which we happily and proudly present to every President to conduct his solemn business of leading our nation and for the protection, enjoyment, and relaxation of his family. It is not one person’s, administration’s, or particular group’s house to proclaim his or their particular views on any topic of social or public policy.”
Ah, com’on..just the other day I heard him say — It’s my house -—to a visitor AND yanno he never lies ! //////sssaaaarrrccc
And when Obama lit up the entire façade of the White House with rainbow lighting, what was he treating it as?
Excellent. Haven’t seen it before. Thanks for posting.
58 millions babies have been killed in the womb.
How do Republicans show their conviction?
“There are good people on both sides of this issue.”
That’s right. There are so many GOOD PEOPLE who are in favor of slicing babies into pieces! There are so many GOOD PEOPLE in ISIS! There are so many GOOD PEOPLE on both sides of the Beheading of Children issue!
NO Democrat has EVER said that “there are good people on both sides of this issue”—whether speaking of abortion or any other issue. Democrats tells blacks “They’re gonna put you back in chains!” They tell women, “They want you in a back alley, dead from a rusty coat hanger!”
The White House was lit up with the Rainbow Colors because THEY WON.
This dude, complaining about the lighting of the WH is nothing but a whining loser.
I don’t know. I would give the White House a pass to celebrate the cure for cancer. Yep I definitely would.
God sent us a clear sign that the White House is controlled by Satan.
We should heed that warning.
Don’t use the White House as a partisan billboard.
Really don’t care what they do with the White House, faces on U.S. currency, etc. The country is dead and its not coming back. Its like arguing about how the mortician did your Grandmother’s makeup.
More like turning the whitehut into a rat infested homosexual bathhouse.
Will King Obama flood the White House with green lights the color of money to celebrate the trillions of dollars he has extorted from taxpayers and
handed over to his wealthy pals, homosexuals, illegals, black power groups, muslims around the world and other democrat professional victim groups?
Boy howdy, is this guy naive. He must not know any leftists personally.
The rainbow whitehouse was a giant FU and a finger in the eye to real Americans.
It is now, and the message to all of us was, as Obama likes to say, "We Won". Talk about spiking the football! It was designed to be as in your face as possible.
What they did not consider was the message to Russia, China, ISIS and Iran....America is week and decadent and not focused on anything other than naval gazing. And they are right to reach such a conclusion.
But those are each issues of good taste and propriety.
From this bunch? The writer must be joking, I'm surprised they did not cover it in condoms first.
Unfortunately for Obama he has now given us the most iconic and meaningful image of the sum of his presidency, a rainbow white-house. An image that nicely captures his most lasting accomplishment in office. Forever may it haunt him.
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