{"id":24486,"date":"2011-12-13T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-war-on-christmas-austerity.html"},"modified":"2011-12-13T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:52:57","slug":"the-war-on-christmas-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-war-on-christmas-austerity.html","title":{"rendered":"The War on Christmas Austerity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since nobody on the Right can claim that the Obama White House is ignoring \/ battling \/ attacking Christmas with its decorations, instead they are lambasting the Obama White House for not being <i>austere<\/i> enough (in keeping with these difficult economic times).<\/p>\n<p>Gee, you&#39;d almost think that they were attacking Obama all the time for political, not  philosophical, reasons.  I mean, imagine the foofoorah about Grinchiness if he announced that he <i>was<\/i> going to be cutting back on the White House decorating budget for the holidays &#8230; #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthenewcivilrightsmovement.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fchristmas-obama.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/right-wing-obama-white-house-christmas-is-not-sufficiently-austere\/news\/2011\/12\/12\/31716'>Right Wing Decries Obama White House Christmas: Not Sufficiently Austere<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresident Obama and his family are being attacked for not being austere enough this Holiday Season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since nobody on the Right can claim that the Obama White House is ignoring \/ battling \/ attacking Christmas with its decorations, instead they are lambasting the Obama White House for not being austere enough (in keeping with these difficult economic times). Gee, you&#39;d almost think that they were attacking Obama all the time for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-war-on-christmas-austerity.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The War on Christmas Austerity!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,68,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23567,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/eek-obama-hates-christmas-and-christians-and-trees-proof-eek-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":24486,"position":0},"title":"Eek! 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