Posted by
Grandpa Kimball on Monday, November 10, 2008 5:55:28 PM
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
The story is about a young well bred, courteous young person (as in the electorate of the season) who
is not familiar with the dangers posed by unwittingly befriending a wolf which desires to eat her
(as a new president who desired to achieve undeserved power). The wolf is assuming the role of
the grandmother thereby having provided his dinner and anticipating his next meal to be Little Red
Riding Hood (as a president who will change his story and make promises only to achieve his goals).
This is where it gets interesting because she begins to recognize that she is not dealing with her grandmother,
after all, it is someone with long hairy arms and big ears (analogous to Reverand Wright, Acorn and plumber
Joe's experience). Charles Perrault explained the ‘moral’ of the story this way, “I say Wolf, for all wolves are
not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition -- neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but
tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not
know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!
Get ready America, the wolf is moving in.
We have now let the wolf into our very lives and we are about to find how dangerous this is going to be as this unsuspecting electorate begins to see the true colors and recognize the appetite of our wolf.