White House Goes Pink 'n stuff

 

... I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2012 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I encourage citizens, government agencies, private businesses, nonprofit organizations, and all other interested groups to join in activities that will increase awareness of what Americans can do to prevent breast cancer.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.

BARACK OBAMA

 

 

Must we cheapen the White House with colored lights? How exactly does that help people with breast cancer? Oy, everything he does [and doesn't do] irritates me.

 

Obama Schedule || Wednesday, October 3, 2012

2:25 am || Departs Henderson, Nevada
3:55 pm || Arrives Denver
9:00 pm || Participates in the first presidential debate

 

 

Oh, and in case you didn't know, Barack and Michelle Obama were married twenty years ago today... by the Rev. Jeremiah "G-D America" Wright.

Some [anonymous] members of Wright's Trinity Church are now saying that Wright himself was the matchmaker who brought them together.

 

 

The president's half-brother Malik Obama was his best man, according to a report in 2004 by the Associated Press.

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

I seem to remember that in the Betty Friedan/Gloria Steinem era, feminists insisted that we must stop dressing boy babies in blue one-sies and girl babies in pink one-sies because such attire was sexist -- and in some way or another influenced the tiny tykes to become, when they grew up, rabid sexists themselves. Yet just a few years later, when the big push against breast cancer began, many of these same feminists decided to make pink the breast-cancer-awareness color because, after all, breast cancer is a disease that afflicts mostly women -- and pink is the color that most readily identifies women. Which just goes to prove, I suppose, that -- when it comes to language -- you can eat your cake and have it, too. In any event, bedecking the White house in pink is an example of sappy, shmaltzy sentimentality run amuck -- and atrociously bad taste to boot.

[Meshulam]

Just be thankful it isn't being lit up in green on Muslim holidays; though such is likely imminent.

[Mannie Sherberg]

Meshulam -- that IS a gruesome thought -- and not at all far-fetched. And what a twofer that would be for Obama: lighting up the White House in the color cherished by both the worldwide jihadi movement and the worldwide environmental movement!

[Mike]

Will there be brown lights for colon cancer awareness?