Are you ready? Because if you go over to WKRN News Channel 2 in Nashville, you can watch Governor Bredesen explain what Christmas is really all about. Clicko right here. WKRN reports that the Governor’s card has moved up to national news with coverage by CNN.
In the interview over at WKRN, Bredesen says that Christmas is “about children and protecting children.” That’s what Christmas is all about, he says.

Well, I didn’t know that. What if you don’t have children? What if you aren’t around children? What if you happen to be the rare individual who doesn’t like children? I guess it’s “NO CHRISTMAS FOR YOU!”
Or perhaps I should offer a more optimistic perspective: “Children, the reason for the season.”

I’m not sure how Governor Bredesen’s card really reflects his assertion that Christmas is about “children and protecting children.” I’m thinking maybe he’s thinking globally, along the lines of Neville Chamberlain or something.

Perhaps FrontPageMag’s Robert Spencer can provide possible insight into the Governor’s Christmas message:

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman is gravely ill, and authorities are jittery. The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, whose red-and-white knit cap and white beard give him an eerily Santa-esque appearance, Sheikh Omar has told his Al-Qaeda followers: “My Brothers…If they [the Americans] kill me, which they will certainly do – hold my funeral and send my corpse to my family, but do not let my blood be shed in vain. Rather, extract the most violent revenge, and remember your brother who spoke the truth and died for the will of God…The Mujahid Sheikh Omar Abdel al Rahman. In the name of God the kind and merciful.”

Adding to nervousness among Western officials during this holiday season are indications that jihadists are planning to strike around Christmastime. British Home Secretary John Reid said last Sunday that the possibility of an attack in the next few weeks was “very high indeed,” and British authorities were aware of as many as thirty planned jihad attacks. “The terrorists,” Reid noted, “only have to get through once, as they did on July 7, for us to see the terrible carnage that it causes.”

A French official concurred: “All of the warning lights are red…The threat is at its highest level. All [security] services are on tenterhooks, and it’s not just us [in France]. Work is under way everywhere, but nothing concrete is emerging.”

The threat is not confined to Europe. Indonesian officials fear that Noordin Muhammad Top, one of the masterminds of the Bali bombing of 2002, may be planning Christmas attacks in Indonesia.

So in light of possible Christmas terrorist attacks, do you think maybe Bredesen was just trying to keep Tennessee safe?

UPDATE: Hallerin Hilton Hill, radio personality over at WNOX FM 100.3, got the Governor’s card. He’s been talking about it since 6:00 this morning. He disagrees with the Governor on this one, although he has reiterated that Governor’s right to choose whatever he wants. Hill thinks a better picture would have been over a Tennessee soldier HELPING the Afghan girl.

As an aside, Hill also received a card from the Tennessee Lottery Director Rebecca Paul. The card pictured a gingerbread house made of lottery tickets. Hill asks “Would Jesus scratch and win?” hee.