Startling political news: Santa himself may be showing support for an unspecified third party candidate. I’m not joking.
First of all, you know our country’s hit hard economic times when Santa Claus himself has to take a part time job manning the Pizza Hut Express counter in the Strongsville Target store. When I asked him about it, Santa — garbed in his red Target tee-shirt and vest, a hairnet over his bushy white beard — said that he picks up jobs part time during his off season to keep busy and tide him over until the Christmas season. “There are only 78 days left til Christmas,” he reminded me with that famous twinkle in his eye, so he planned to work a few more weeks before going back on to his main job.
But he confided something shocking: this year, he was more excited for Election Day to be upon us than he was Christmas. Mr. C. claims he is tired of all the political ads and public bad-mouthing between the candidates, adding (and I’m still not making this up) “Both of those yahoos [McCain and Obama] are on my naughty list.”
If ever there was a time in my life where I kicked myself for not having my camera with me, it was tonight, standing there clutching a pizza in the middle of Target as Santa Claus (yes, his nametag read “SANTA”) talked politics with yours truly.
What a strange place we live in…
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