BF: What was Christmas like around your town when you were growing up?
BD: Well, you know, plenty of snow, jingle bells, Christmas carolers going from house to house, sleighs in the streets, town bells ringing, nativity plays. That sort of thing.
BF: Your family was Jewish – as a kid did you ever feel left out of the Christmas excitement?
BD: No, not at all.
BF: What’s your idea of a good Christmas Dinner?
BD: Mashed potatoes and gravy, roast turkey and collard greens, turnip greens, biscuit dressing, corn bread and cranberry sauce.
Not to highjack this thread but this exchange reminded me of a post by 'Molly' at American Thinker. I thought it was a brilliant observation of Obama and his lack of an American childhood.
From Molly:
"I had an epiphany last Christmas Season (giant leap of knowledge). At the time I was well aware that Obama is a communist.
As I prepared my house for the festivities that lie in the days ahead, it occurred to me as I listened to Bing, Nat, Andy Williams sing the greatest from the American songbook, while my daughter was getting excited to watch Charlie Brown and White Christmas and get out the Monopoly, it hit me that this impostor was devoid of this experience. Something so quintessentially North American the Christmas Season, the music, the tree, the movies was NEVER a part of his childhood.
This impostor sat around with commie grandparents and their commie pals who probably discouraged any of these traditional activities.
Then I heard there would be no tree in the Obama white house what a surprise. There were no cowboy movies for little Obama, no lunar landing excitement let alone p.j's with cowboys or rockets, no toy rifles, no green army men to play with, nothing remotely "American" definitely no Monopoly. He is the most un-American American, and lo and behold he is the President of your country.
It just floors me when I hear a man like Cheney the elegant statesman speak about his Country, the polar opposite of Obama. God help the U.S.A and ask Santa for a new President, or for the a covert ops team to find the notes in Ayers house.."
Obama grew up in Indonesia in an agnostic household. He eventually came to live with grandma (he was well after 10 by then, no?) where he was raised on the knee of a Communist.
The Left doesn’t like the word Communist being thrown around. Not because it isn’t true, but because they claim “critics don’t know what that really is”.
Ask them if they find Communism as reprehensible as Nazism and you’ll find if they have any Communist sympathies.
Ask them if Communism is so great (it’s just that “no nation actually has real communism”) then they should emmigrate to a Communist nation and push for REFORM Communism within the Communist Party.
Why jack with my country just because it has thwarted Communist takeover in several countries and liberated others?
Where did you read that?
Who'd have thought it would come to this only eight years after 9/11 -- a muslim President?
We're through the looking glass.