Halloween.<\/p>\n
It’s a day when children (and some adults) dress up, go around, and get candy and other treats. (I had gummies and comic books to give away. I had no kids come by, however. Means more gummies and comics for me!)<\/p>\n
It’s a fun holiday.<\/p>\n
It’s certainly not<\/i> an occasion for political grandstanding.<\/p>\n
Unless you’re Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.<\/p>\n
If children came to her house and their parents were planning on voting for Barack Obama on Tuesday, she turned them away<\/a>. No candy for the children of Obama supporters from Ms. Nagel.<\/p>\n Her reason? Obama is “scary.” And “everybody has a choice.”<\/p>\n So, Ms. Nagel turned a holiday that is about harmless fun into a reason to punish children for their parents’ political choices.<\/p>\n She put her fear of Obama ahead of being a productive member of her community.<\/p>\n Children approaching her house last night “were turned away empty-handed and crying” according to the article.<\/p>\n Shirley Nagel, you’re a pathetic human being. Shirley Nagel, you’re scum, and you should be ashamed of yourself.<\/p>\n Have a bag of rocks, you hateful woman.<\/p>\n A shout-out to De<\/a> for bringing this appalling story to my attention.<\/p>\n ETA (11-2-08):<\/b> And here’s a local television news report on Ms. Nagel’s Halloween grandstanding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Halloween. It’s a day when children (and some adults) dress up, go around, and get candy and other treats. (I had gummies and comic books to give away. I had no kids come by, however. Means more gummies and comics for me!) It’s a fun holiday. It’s certainly not an occasion for political grandstanding. UnlessContinue reading “On Ruining Halloween”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[206,4135],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-halloween","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}