WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) — President Barack Obama, with special guest First Lady Michelle Obama, used his weekly radio address Friday to issue Christmas greetings.
He noted that “like millions of Americans and Christians around the world, our family celebrates the birth of Jesus and the values … treating one another with love and compassion.”
“Caring for those on society’s margins, the sick and the hungry, the poor and the persecuted, the stranger in need of shelter — or simply an act of kindness.”
Obama also honored “all who defend those values in our country’s uniform. Every day, the brave men and women of our military serve to keep us safe — and so do their families.”
The first lady prominently mentioned JoiningForces.gov, a White House website dedicated to helping military members, veterans and their families.
On Thursday Obama helped answer telephone calls to the NORAD Tracks Santa program of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado in which the North American Aerospace Defense Command answers phone-in questions from children inquiring about Santa’s travels on Christmas Eve.
Michelle Obama spoke to a boy named Hunter from the Obamas’ vacation home in Kailua, Hawaii.
“I’m looking on the radar screen and I see Santa,” she told him. “I see a little sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, and he is flying right now. He’s going faster than the speed of light. He’s flying over a country called Libya, and he’s delivered over 3 billion toys already. And it looks like he’s headed towards your house soon. But, Hunter, you’ve got to be in bed before Santa will come and deliver the toys. So you’ve got to listen to your dad when he says go to bed so that Santa can get there in time and drop your toys off, okay?”
Hunter softly said he would comply with the first lady’s instructions.
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