You can't please all of the people all of the time

Dallas Morning News | Editorials:

“Scenario: You decide to send Christmas cards to a few dozen friends and co-workers. Looking at options in a store display, you most like the card with a simple, reverent depiction of the Christ child in the manger. Then you think about that Vietnamese man in your department and wonder about his religion. Same goes for the couple from India who lives next door. You are sure that the Christ child is not the best choice for your Jewish friends or the Iranian fellow who coaches your daughter's soccer team. So, like Christians all over America, you buy more than one card to convey your warmest wishes of peace, love and friendship. Later, you end up mailing "season's greetings" cards to some fellow Christians. It doesn't cross your mind that Christian friends would resent an earnest message of good will. ”

Poor President Bush. It's hard being a compassionate conservative. Hard. He really ticked off some Christians by sending greeting cards that expressed "best wishes for a holiday season of hope and happiness." How thoughtless of him. ;-)

To avoid offending Christians, next year he'll have to send Christian greeting cards to everyone. The people of other faiths will probably handle it OK. After all, even the Jews and Muslims are beginning to look more tolerant than some Christians these days.