The Barracuda’s “Message of Christmas”

If Sarah Palin has conveyed one message over the last three years it is that Barack and Michelle Obama can do nothing right. Palin has lodged an attack on everything from Breastfeeding  to encouraging healthy eating.  In her zeal to attack Obama, she has shown herself to be clueless. When she attacked Obama’s State of the Union message she confused the space race with the arms race. While blaming Obama for not solving the Gulf Oil Spill, she proved just how clueless she is by suggesting that we should build dikes 50 miles off shore where the ocean is 5000 feet deep.  Instead of applauding Obama for killing Osama bin Laden, she lodged criticism for his failure to publicize a picture of the dead terrorist’s body. Thus, it was predictable that Sarah Palin would find fault with the Obama Christmas Card .

 

Here is the Card:

 

The greeting inside was:

““From our family to yours, may your holidays shine with the light of the season,”

Here is the Palin “Card” which isn’t a card at all but instead a facebook post. She says:

My family and I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I offer this to all because Christmas is a holiday for all, whether you are a Christian believer or not. The message of Christmas is full of hope, peace, joy, and the fellowship of all mankind; so I find it amazing that every year we hear more accounts of a ramped up “war on Christmas.”

 

How sad and ironic that a handful of grinches are at war with the annual celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace, whose coming was prophesied centuries earlier and was then gloriously heralded by the angels with a blessing for “peace on earth” and “good will toward men.” Even if one doesn’t believe the story, can’t one at least recognize the beauty of the message? Or at the very least, let everyone else enjoy the season without throwing a temper tantrum at the sight of a Nativity scene? People who feel affronted by a baby in a humble Manger display or a few Christmas carols have truly lost all sense of proportion and seem to be most in need of some holiday cheer. ……

From our home to yours, Merry Christmas.

The only picture on the post is this one of Bristol.

 

There is no actual card with Sarah’s signature or personalized message. There is no Christmas tree. Bristol isn’t wearing anything that would remind the viewer of Christmas. Palin is not depicted with her family. There is no dog in the picture, perhaps because she shot it long ago. Palin said on Fox News that :

“ the majority of Americans can appreciate the more traditional, “American foundational values illustrated and displayed on Christmas cards and on a Christmas tree.”

There is nothing “traditional” about a post on facebook. Palin’s “post” isn’t a Christmas Card at all. There is no garland, poinsettia, tree, family, or even a cozy home in the background. While criticizing the President for being sensitive to those who don’t celebrate Christmas, Sarah Palin proves her lack of sensitivity to all non-Christians by suggesting that Christmas is a holiday “for all.” Her reference to a “temper tantrum” at the sight of a nativity scene is a direct attack on the importance of separation of church and state. Thus while promoting the idea of “hope, peace, joy, and fellowship of all mankind” Palin establishes she only wishes hope, peace, joy, and fellowship for all of her Christian brothers and people who support her. Sarah Palin is unable to convey any message of love, peace, joy, or values of Christianity without being critical of others who hold a different view of the world. Through her attack on those who would disagree with her, she reveals her true character. By her lack a of real Christmas card, and the lack of a real message of love at this holiday time, we see Sarah Palin for the person she is …and she is a person totally void of good will for all.