2,000 kids knocking on White House door

[d.mcc]

Now Obama is giving handouts to kids?! Sounds like more socialist indoctrination to me:

By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON [[AP) - It's the ultimate trick-or-treating treasure, that one house on the block that offers the coolest candy and surprises galore.

This year it's the big gated place on Pennsylvania Avenue, No. 1600. There's no mailbox out front, but every little kid knows who lives there.

Welcome to the White House, boys and girls.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama awaited more than 2,000 children Saturday night from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The kids were to get to do their trick-or-treating on the most famous front porch in America, the North Portico, with the Obamas planning to spend time handing out goodies.

The word is that the president and the first lady didn't plan to dress up in costumes. But don't rule out the chance that some youngsters might dress up as the Obamas.

The early evening extravaganza was to include outdoor entertainment and activities for the children and their families, so all the youngsters won't be lining up at once for candy.

Later, in the East Room, the first couple were to be joined by Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, at a Halloween reception for military families and for the moms and dads who work at the White House, along with their kids.

It's the first White House Halloween for the Obamas' daughters, 8-year-old Sasha and 11-year-old Malia.

The visiting children were chosen, with help from the Education Department, from schools in the capital and surrounding suburbs.

Over the years, the winter holidays have been the ones to get the full treatment at the White House, with Christmas trees and tinsel all around.

The Obamas are not the first, though, to show Halloween spirit.

President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush hosted 500 children on Halloween in 1989, loading them up with fun loot but also teaching them about the dangers of drugs. The kids came decked out in costumes; some Secret Service agents came dressed as clowns.

In the Clintons' first year in the White House, the Great Pumpkin returned. A huge orange jack-o'-lantern formed around the front entrance to the White House, with the front door to the mansion serving as the middle tooth. The first couple's daughter, Chelsea, was 13 at the time and the house was stuffed with pumpkins.

During the Nixon administration, first daughter Tricia hosted parties for underprivileged children, according to the White House Historical Association. And plenty of other first families got festive for Halloween.

[ccbatson]

Is someone forcing Obama to do it? is there a new law with a tax, or fine attached? Then it isn't consistent with what Obama is doing to all of us.

[Detroitej72]

^^^More conservative propaganda from an angry right winger.

[ccbatson]

Voluntary versus involuntary...how is that propaganda?

[Detroitej72]

Playing the terrified conservative, you take something that is a fun, light hearted tradition and try, in vain, to make it political. You need to get out more and lay off the right wing kool-aid.

[ghettopalmetto]

Those lazy-ass bastard kids should stop begging for handouts and get jobs so they can buy their own candy. I'm tired of all this socialist crap. Our country is going down the shitter.

[rb336]

White House, the Great Pumpkin returned. A huge orange jack-o'-lantern formed around the front entrance to the White House, with the front door to the mansion serving as the middle tooth.

Are they sure that wasn't just Bill in an orange suit with his zipper open?

[elganned]

Put 'em back to work in the mines, I say.
Less crime in the streets if they're exhausted by the end of the day.
About time they learned there's no free lunch, or Halloween candy.

[d.mcc]

Those lazy-ass bastard kids should stop begging for handouts and get jobs so they can buy their own candy. I'm tired of all this socialist crap. Our country is going down the shitter.

Spot on observation GP, whats next? Is Obama going to invite these kids over for easter so they can eat all our eggs?! GET A JOB KIDS! THERE'S PLENTY OUT THERE!

[ccbatson]

Wrong idea, to be consistent, Obama would want to require that adults give out candy or face penalties. The candy will be purchased with someone else's money at progressively inflated prices, distributed hours late to the adults who pay a tax for the privilege of being forced to give it out

[Detroitej72]

Obama would want to require that adults give out candy or face penalties. The candy will be purchased with someone else's money at progressively inflated prices, distributed hours late to the adults who pay a tax for the privilege of being forced to give it out

More propaganda by pseudo-conservative outlets such as Fox News and AM radio.

Its time for the real conservatives to take back their party! The fringe has high-jacked the once respectable Republican Party for far too long...

[Diehard]

Wrong idea, to be consistent, Obama would want to require that adults give out candy or face penalties. The candy will be purchased with someone else's money at progressively inflated prices, distributed hours late to the adults who pay a tax for the privilege of being forced to give it out

Gosh, I hope you're joining in the joke... but it's hard to tell.

[d.mcc]

Gosh, I hope you're joining in the joke... but it's hard to tell.

That seemed pretty serious to me

[Danny]

Those lazy-ass bastard kids should stop begging for handouts and get jobs so they can buy their own candy. I'm tired of all this socialist crap. Our country is going down the shitter.

Some of those kids are not what you have said. They have been invited to see our first Premier, our Supreme Leader Obama for a Halloween Party. It socialist/[[Communist) but its better.

Always obey your supreme leader of the Pre-federative Democratic Socialist Communist United States of Amerika Barrack Hussien Obama.

Obama = Hope

[ccbatson]

Yes a joke, satirizing the reality.