{"id":206,"date":"2008-08-05T23:26:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-08-05T23:26:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T04:26:49","slug":"cut-the-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Cut the Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not big on politics.  In fact, this year&#8217;s presidential primary was the first time I&#8217;ve ever voted.  The events were 32 years in the making.  I snapped, registered Democrat and voted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Senator Obama<\/a>.  I can&#8217;t fathom continuing the course set by that joker from Texas and his cronies.  I&#8217;m not sure if Senator Obama is the answer but he has to be better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Senator McCain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen Senator McCain&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oHXYsw_ZDXg\" TARGET = \"_blank\">advertisement<\/a> portraying Senator Obama as an entertainer like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris_Hilton\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Paris Hilton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Britney_Spears\" TARGET = \"_blank\">Britney Spears<\/a>?  It paints Senator Obama as person of little substance with a cult following.  I honestly thought the ad was an Internet spoof until I realized the video was on Senator McCain&#8217;s YouTube site! In the end, Paris got the last laugh when she pulled positives from both candidates&#8217; energy policies to create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/64ad536a6d\" TARGET = \"_blank\">video spoof<\/a> more concise, humorous and positive than the ad that started all the ruckus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not big on politics. In fact, this year&#8217;s presidential primary was the first time I&#8217;ve ever voted. The events were 32 years in the making. I snapped, registered Democrat and voted for Senator Obama. I can&#8217;t fathom continuing the course set by that joker from Texas and his cronies. I&#8217;m not sure if Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}