Posted by admin | Posted in Christmas Time | Posted on 17-01-2010
Tags: christmas tree, obama christmas tree, tree white house
Washington has several official Christmas trees, which are often misidentified by the media. A guide to which tree is which.
Important things in Washington often come in threes. There are political institutions: Congress, White House, and Supreme Court. There are sports teams: baseball Nationals, basketball Wizards, and hockey Capitals. (The football Redskins are so bad this year Decoder is counting them out.)
And there are Christmas trees. Three nice ones, which every year jostle their branches and flick their globes at each other in a competition to be Washington’s most glamorous.
Most Americans may vaguely think there is something called the National Christmas Tree, cut down somewhere snowy every year by a guy with a dog and a sled and trucked to the White House, where it is presented to the first lady, who invites the guy and his dog in for cookies and punch.