The Easter bunny has been kidnapped.
With insights, I’m Ernest Istook.
The secular tradition of Easter egg hunts doesn’t come any bigger than the White House Easter Egg Roll, which each year involves 30,000 guests at the Executive Mansion.
Now it’s become just another occasion to promote First Lady Michele Obama’s campaign to change children’s eating habits; that dominates the Egg Roll’s agenda. That’s a noble purpose, of course, but something is off-putting when the focus is on lectures and activities that bend traditions rather than sustaining them.
We also were told that Thanksgiving dinners were the perfect time to gather and discuss Obamacare, and that Obamacare was the perfect gift for Christmas. And television ads showed nagging mothers telling kids that if they loved their mom they’d sign up for Obamacare.
You can’t take the politics out of some holidays, like the Fourth of July. But it doesn’t feel right to politicize all our holidays, and certainly not to kidnap the Easter bunny.
