There are a lot of little things that are adding up to make me more ill at ease with her nomination.
Like her vetoing the white house christmas card one year because they were 'too christian'.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498078/posts
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I worked with Miers at the White House. Though my interaction with her was limited, since I was merely a Presidential Writer and she was the Staff Secretary, I had a unique experience with her. In 2001, I was given the task of writing the President’s Christmas message to the nation. After researching Reagan, Bush, and Clinton’s previous Christmas messages, I wrote something that was well within the bounds of what had been previously written (and in case you are wondering, Clinton’s messages were far more evangelical than the elder Bush’s).
The director of correspondence and the deputy of correspondence edited and approved the message and it was sent to the Staff Secretary’s office for the final vetting. Miers emailed me and told me that the message might offend people of other faiths, i.e., that the message was too Christian. She wanted me to change it. I refused to change the message (In my poor benighted reasoning, I actually think that Christmas is an overtly Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Christ and the beginning of the redemption of man.).
The director and deputy of correspondence supported me. I even emailed Ken Mehlman (then the Political Director at the White House, now the Republican National Committee Chairman), to see what he thought about the message. He was not offended by it in the least. Miers insisted that I change the tone of the message. I again refused, and after several weeks, the assignment was taken out of my hands. I was later encouraged to apologize to Miers. I did not apologize.
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At the same time there were folks over there at the WH prepared to take any returned cards and do an address lookup to send yet another card to the targeted individual at a different address (if any).
The "forwarding" system is fairly automated and depends substantially on OCRs. There must be a thousand "WHITE HOUSE" addresses in the DC area ~ so, even for "THE WHITE HOUSE" you have to have a tad more in the return address lest the machines get lost.
I advised you to include a full return address so that you'd get the undeliverable pieces back so you could mail a new one.
Thankgoodness you conformed because 9/11 happened and new security concerns resulted in all mail to the WHITE HOUSE without a return address being destroyed at the special facility out at Dulles.
So, in this one "trust me" again.
As a strong christian, this doesn't bother me much, not having seen the cards in question.
It bothers me some that a person working in a chain of command would, having been asked by a superior to fix something, would not only refuse, but would go not just to the next level, but rather around, and through, and outside, in an attempt to, what, embarrass the superior into doing "the right thing"?
The "I sent it to the jew and he wasn't upset" I guess was what sent me over the edge. I'd love to here Ken's side of this. Asking a jew if a christmas card is too "christian" is just something that to me seems over the top.
Just my opinion.