The official White House Christmas card

[underpants]

Finally after three years W can color inside the lines. Not too bad.



The design of the official White House Christmas card, bearing a Crawford, Texas postmark, will be mailed to friends and family of President and Mrs. Bush, as well as foreign dignitaries starting Friday, Nov. 28, 2003. This years card was designed by artist Barbara Ernst Prey of Oyster Bay, N.Y., and depicts the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. The design is a watercolor painting of the fireplace and decorated mantle of the Diplomatic Reception Room during the holidays. The Diplomatic Reception Room served as the furnace room of the White House until 1902; it now serves as an entrance to the White House from the South Grounds for family and visiting dignitaries. (AP Photo/White House)

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. the only thing cool about this

Is the person who designed it is from Long Island.

[Lars39]

4. The only cool thing about it is bush and pickles aren't in the chairs!

I wouldn't have minded seeing Barney, though; haven't seen much of him since he was dropped on the tarmac.

[rjbcar27]

2. Inspiring.

:eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

3. Not even a picture of the royal, er, first family?

Damn...I was hoping to ogle the twins when I got my card. x(

[ChickMagic]

8. Nah

Not with the amount of vacation these people take. I'm sure they were completely unavailable.

[underpants]

10. I think there are some cherries on the table on the right

Sorry cherries don't really apply now do they?

[terrya]

5. Beautiful card. It's a real pity realizing who lives there.

The White House is a dignified national treasure. Let's hope that we can evict the current occupants and bring some people in who will do the mansion proud again.

[tridim]

6. Booooring!

I know our beloved pResident had nothing to do with the design of the card, but geez louise that card is so conservative, so boring, almost depressing. Norman Rockwell would be bored by it.

[underpants]

7. Hmm maybe that is the way the want things to be

so conservative, so boring, almost depressing

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Very Fitting. empty chairs. these idiots don't even know when

they are being mocked!

I LOVE IT>

[RobertSeattle]

11. Crawford Texas postmark

Did other President's go to such lengths to be PHONEY? Did Carter have his postmarked from Plains, GA?

[felonious thunk]

14. I hope that Bush knows

we're as desperate to send him back to Texas as he is to be there. Asshole.

[VelmaD]

15. We don't want him...

you can keep him.

[felonious thunk]

17. No way, he don't want to be here

And we sure don't want him to stay. So you HAVE to take him back. No givebacks!

[GOPisEvil]

22. Noooooo...let's give him back to Connecticut!

That's where he was born!

Ugh...ptooey! We don't want him here in TX. Take his momma and daddy too.

[felonious thunk]

25. That works, as long as he's out of DC!

Although Saint Helena might be more appropriate...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. It's Just Asking for some Creative Photoshopping

by DUers. Unfortunately, I have no talent...

[bif]

19. How about this?

[maxanne]

20. great job bif

Truly inspired!!

[bif]

21. Thanks

It was a rush job. If I had more time, I would have done a better job.

[brainshrub]

27. My god, you're a genius!

It took me a few moments to see it. Subtile. I dig. I wish I had photoshop.

[bif]

28. I love Photoshop!

Anything you can think of, you can create in Photoshop. I took a 2 day seminar in it and I eally should take the second part--but it's exensive and I got the company I worked for to pay for it. I'd have to pay for it out of my own pocket this time. Maybe I'l just have to slog my way through a Photoshop book.

Thanks for the oompliment. Check out my George Bush cartoon site:
http://george2.keenspace.com
I use Photoshop but mainly just to put in thought balloons and such.

[Ilsa]

42. Can you find a picture of the drunken twins to add in?

One of them rolling on the floor in her own vomit would be cool while the other pulls up her shirt for the camera like "Girls Gone Wild".

[BringEmOn]

31. Here's another

[bif]

34. Nicely done!

n/t

[BringEmOn]

36. Thank you

B-)

[underpants]

13. I think it is beautiful

To poop on!

[cally]

16. I see the power play in the chairs and their arrangement

Why would you invite a guest over and put them in a subservient position? Look at those chairs and their arrangement. It's subtle, but the left one is slightly bigger and angled to project power. The dominant chair is slightly pulled back from the interaction. Then, what kind of human being does not include life in a Christmas card. I think the selection of this card gives more information about *'s character than he wants us to know.

[BrokenSegue]

18. How dorky!

[corarose]

23. It's Drab

It doesn't look Christmas enough.

[Bertha Venation]

24. Great. They chose the ugliest room in the White House. Works for me.

[Zero Gravitas]

26. Diplomatic Reception Room

Diplomatic Reception Room , eh? Figures that the chairs would be EMPTY given how diplomatic the * Regime is.

[Drifter]

29. Is that a picture of George Washington ...

or Curly from the Stooges.

Looks pretty funny.

Cheers
Drifter

[corarose]

32. No, It's Barbara Bush

:kick:

[nini]

33. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

good one

[smirkymonkey]

30. Oooo...Looks like they're AWOL

Just like in real life!

[arwalden]

35. I Have Seven Clinton Christmas Cards

My mom worked in the WH during the Clinton years and had me added to the official list. It was great fun to display it with the rest of my holiday cards.

-- Allen

[Lisa]

37. anybody else notice how empty their cards look?

All the George W. Bush ones I've seen have a kind of distant, cold appearance.

Some past cards for comparison.

http://pressroom.hallmark.com/Presidential_holiday_card.html
(Bush's card last year)

http://ronwade.freeservers.com/christmas.html
https://www.whitehousechristmas.com/whcstore/product_summary.asp?pmode=dept&pkey=4

[smirkymonkey]

38. Maybe they are trying to get across the

message that "Nobody's Home", literally and figuratively...;)

[MoonAndSun]

39. Why not a picture of AWOL & Pickles with the twins and those 2 dogs?

Maybe because the twins and the dogs can't stand to be in the same room with their parents.

[Ilsa]

40. What? No personal letter? Here's my lame attempt:

"Dear friends,

It's been another great year for the Bush family, almost as wonderful as 2001!

We managed to kill over 430 parents of American children this year, and there is no telling how many Iraqi children we have orphaned. But that is no problem as they don't believe in Jesus anyway and Santa won't be going to their homes!

We appreciate our good friends who tried to buy up all those copies of magazines with pics of the Twins falling down drunk. It's hard to catch them all even though we control 99% of the media."

Okay, someone else needs to finish the letter. I'm not very good at this.

[soupkitchen]

41. Nobody's Home