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When you're the first president in memory not to do something, it's news.
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They may miss singing carols and reading the Christmas story in the book of Luke, at least in a formal church setting, but after entertaining 50,000 house guests, all the First Family must really want for Christmas is some peace and quiet.
Peace and quiet sounds good to me, can't say I can blame them....
I think Meson's point is that this is trivial, it's not something that is truly important, it is something to distract us from those issues which actually are important. The media in the US has a depressing tendency to focus on and trivial crap like this and make a big deal out of it when they shouldn't. There are so many things going on in the world that should get covered in the media, but don't because things like this are easier to talk about and to make into a big hoopla. It's ridiculous and, in some ways, it's damaging.
The trivial is usually the doom of most politicians.
Didn't see any stories about it. If not, how long since a President didn't attend Christmas services?
Ronald Reagan didn't attend church. I can't be bothered to prove that he didn't attend church on Christmas. Seems that if you don't go any other time, going on Christmas is kind of shallow.
The trivial is usually the doom of most politicians.
Yes, and I'm lamenting the fact. It's really a sad state of affairs, we have a public that fetishizes celebrity, which loves a good (if trivial) scandal and which is grossly uninformed about the great issues of our time. We'd rather debate someone's churchgoing habits than what we should do about genocide in Sudan, for example. Truly sad.
When you're the first president in memory not to do something, it's news.
You should have read the article linked to the post you were replying to. It said: "President Reagan also remained in Washington over Christmas — reportedly so members of the Secret Service could be near their families — although Reagan didn't venture out to a local church service."
Ronald Reagan didn't attend church. I can't be bothered to prove that he didn't attend church on Christmas. Seems that if you don't go any other time, going on Christmas is kind of shallow.
But there are "shallow" people who only go to church on Christmas and Easter--unless they're attending a wedding held in one.
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