{"id":239,"date":"2008-07-31T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/239"},"modified":"2008-07-31T15:31:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:31:06","slug":"more-lies-from-the-low-road-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/more-lies-from-the-low-road-express\/","title":{"rendered":"More Lies from the Low Road Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCain&#8217;s latest ad &#8220;Celebrity&#8221; tries to negatively link Obama to the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears&#8230; (yes they are all celebrities, but nothing alike as people) and the makes a <em class=\"b\">completely false <\/em>assertion that he would raise taxes on electricity.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Not true, according to <a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/obamas_celebrity_cred.html\">factcheck.org<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and the <a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/printer\/printer.ssf?\/base\/news\/121749306253150.xml&amp;coll=2\">Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"boxright\"><object width=\"246\" height=\"200\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bdj2HsXMwkU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bdj2HsXMwkU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"246\" height=\"200\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting more disgusted by the day and I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;re going to be seeing a lot more political posts from me as the election gets closer.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What happened to McCain&#8217;s promise of a &#8220;respectful&#8221; campaign?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article749388.ece\">From straight Talk to Smear Campaign<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; St. Petersburg Times Editorial<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/30\/opinion\/30wed1.html\">The Low Road Epxress<\/a> &#8211; NY Times Editorial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really hope my Republican leaning friends\/family see through this nonsense and don&#8217;t reward the behavior. Don&#8217;t be fooled by Karl Rove&#8217;s minions this election. <em class=\"b\">Don&#8217;t vote McCain!<\/em> It would be like getting another George Bush, only angrier.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest a vote for <a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/index.php\">Obama<\/a>! But if you just can&#8217;t bring yourself to do that &#8211; why not take a look at Libertarian Candidate <a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbarr2008.com\/home\/skip\/?s=0618\">Bob Barr<\/a>? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greyhavens.org\/myfamily\/smiley.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain&#8217;s latest ad &#8220;Celebrity&#8221; tries to negatively link Obama to the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears&#8230; (yes they are all celebrities, but nothing alike as people) and the makes a completely false assertion that he would raise taxes on electricity.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Not true, according to factcheck.org\u00c2\u00a0and the Cincinnati Enquirer. I&#8217;m getting more disgusted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/more-lies-from-the-low-road-express\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Lies from the Low Road Express<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}