By Ed Randazzo
At the Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 4/25/2011 the next to last question (from Kara Rowland of the Washington Times) was:
” You guys traditionally put out statements or proclamations on various religious holidays and I don’t think I saw one from the President on Easter yesterday and was just wondering if there’s any reason one didn’t go out.”
Amazingly the following exchange ensued:
Jay Carney: You know, the President went to the church yesterday; it was well covered. I’m not sure if we put out a statement or not, but he obviously personally celebrated Easter with his family and went to church to celebrate that. And — *
Kara: Wait a minute. The highest Christian holiday and you don’t know if he put out a statement?
The truth is no statement was issued by the president. I guess the most important holiday of the Christian calendar, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, wasn’t important enough for a White House statement.
However, I did notice that Obama did issue a statement on 4/23/2011 on Armenian Remembrance Day.
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