Next Up: The White House Christmas Card

I like it. Christmas cards should be benign. I don’t know what your question is with respect to the chairs. Don’t people often have chairs to pull up to the fireplace? Especially in older homes, which the White House certainly is?

Yuck! It’s practically a Thomas Kincade Christmas card.

It does, however, have all the Christmasy elements that the Romney card doesn’t. The warm fire, the cute puppy, the gifts and wreaths etc. But boy is it tacky. Maybe that’s another way of saying it’s benign.

The whole thing is covered in a pinkish purple glow. The “red” ribbons look more purple than red. This, together with the purple dominate portrait. No doubt political consultants were used to dress the first family, and Obama will be trying to paint himself as the centrist purple president, but maybe it’s reading too much into this image. Sometimes a tacky purple haze is just a tacky purple haze.