Obama Betrayed by His Christmas Tree

(Just this once, without making a habit of it, I will take advantage of my colleague’s vacation in order to inform you of our American neighbors . . . )

Finally, blunt proof that Obama is an arrogant communist and a defender of gay people. The American president surely believed he could slip this one by unnoticed, but he has been betrayed by his Christmas tree.

It is among the 800 decorations that decorate the conifer in the “Blue Room” of the White House that one finds, well-concealed, three Christmas ornaments that do not lie. On the first, one notices the portrait of the Great Helmsman himself, Mao Zedong. On the second, an ornament adorned with rainbow flags that symbolize the gay community and Hedda Lettuce, a popular drag queen. And on the last, a Mount Rushmore ornament has Obama’s head pasted next to his four predecessors.

The conservative website BigGovernment.com exposed the “evidence,” which was widely broadcast on the conservative blogosphere before finally catching the attention of Fox News.

The ornament with an effigy of Mao “is a slap in the face to all Americans,” said one blogger, but it’s not “an astonishing choice, considering the horrific parallels between the big leap forward [of Mao] and the direction in which Obama is leading the United States.”

Needless to say, the president’s opponents hope to get some mileage out of this “scandal.” The first lady’s office was quick to assert that these decorations were not chosen by them and that members of the local community decorated the presidential residence. The Right is already referring to it as “Ornament-Gate” (in reference to the Watergate Scandal).

More seriously though, the presidential couple may have fed the fire of more ferocious critics by choosing the controversial decorator, Simon Doonan, to give a Christmas ambiance to the White House. Doonan, who decorates the windows of the luxury store Barneys in New York, is known for having depicted — in a less than glowing manner — Margaret Thatcher as a dominatrix and Dan Quayle, vice president under George H.W. Bush, as a ventriloquist’s dummy.

So finally, I take advantage of this beautiful Christmas story to wish you a very joyous one! And as international news does not break during the holidays, your humble blogger will not break either. Therefore, till next time …