They still don't get it

Not sure they ever WILL get it. The mainstream liberal press, that is.

Ann McFeatters of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette opines:

WASHINGTON -- George and Laura Bush's 2004 Christmas card, which hit mailboxes this past week (paid for by the Republican National Committee), is a copy of a painting by Texas artist Cindi Holt that depicts a stylized Red Room and bears a phrase from the Bible.

It's Psalm 95:2 and reads: "Let us come before Him with Thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song." Presumably, this refers to the deity and not the president hosting his many holiday parties.

Cheap shot... sounds like she didn't get a personal invite to one of his holiday parties. Insinuating that W has a God-complex (oh, excuse me -- a "deity" complex)... that's not really that funny, Ann. It just sounds bitter. Why don't you get over your post-election blues and move on? But I digress...

In the past, Christmas cards from the White House did not generally proselytize along religious lines. But this White House intends to make us better people, and Bush's re-election victory seems to indicate that's fine with a majority of Americans.

This reveals two misconceptions on Ms. McFeatters' part.

The first misconception is the obvious one: she's afraid that the White House is actually trying to re-make her and other blue-staters. It's the "Jesusland" cut, re-stated. However, that's too easy. I'm disappointed that they can't seem to come up with anything more sophisticated than that argument, because it reveals to the rest of us just how UNwilling they are to spend time THINKING to see the real issue. Much easier just to scream "religious persecution" and give the impression that the Puritans Are Back In Town, and hope that the rest of the liberal sheep swallow that lame assumption just as they've swallowed every other ridiculous pile of pigpoop they've served up.

The second misconception is one that really does underlie the central failure of liberalism: that the White House can actually dictate to the rest of us what we believe, think, or ARE. That an over-arching government has the responsibility -- or even more basic, the POWER -- to dictate to the entire nation what is appropriate and acceptable to think. And that the simple expression of his personal faith means that W intends for the entire country to convert to Christianity and eschew their wicked ways.

The rest of her op-ed is pretty much more of the same whining, blatantly indicating her lack of understanding. Well, it isn't my responsibility to help her -- the truth is out there, as the X-Files so eloquently stated, and it's available for anyone who wants to find it. Ann McFeatters simply doesn't WANT to find it. She wants to continue living in her imaginary world, throwing a temper-tantrum whenever things happen that she doesn't understand. And I, for one, am going to let her -- because it means that she and her ilk have lost their significance and their relevance.