'OK' We had to do it. If for no other reason than to "scare" a few Democrats. What's been interesting though is what I've learned by watching children and parents react to it.
Children LOVE elephants! We got more compliments from kids on our pumpkin than we've ever gotten before. I wonder if it would have been the same with a donkey?
Many parents find it all to easy to ruin a night's fun and confuse their children with adult concepts. I heard more than one parent say either to their child or within their child's hearing something like "Bush is terrible. Why would anyone support him."
Watching these two different responses to the same object made me wonder how the children would eventually process this information. Would the children associate elephants with something "terrible?" Would they ask their parents why Bush was "terrible?" If they did, how would parents "educate" their children? What "scary stories" would they tell about the President of the United States, leader of the Free World, Commander & Chief, defender of the unborn, liberator of millions and protector of our homeland and way of life?
The probable answers to this last question are what "scare" me the most!
