{"id":48,"date":"2008-07-24T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-07-25T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T20:46:41","slug":"mccain-vs-obama-and-irish-propoganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2008\/07\/mccain-vs-obama-and-irish-propoganda\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain vs Obama and Irish Propoganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently starting receiving the email below. It&#8217;s amusing the first couple times so I thought I&#8217;d share. Interestingly, it&#8217;s hit my inbox from multiple sources which makes me think it&#8217;s the latest in a viral campaign. It also made me wonder what the original source was. First, here&#8217;s the email text:<\/p>\n<ul><strong>Email<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Leave it to the Irish to cut through the crap and make the whole issue crystal clear&#8230;\u00c2  Thoughts from across the pond&#8230;&#8230; An email from Ireland to the brethren in the States&#8230;a point to ponder despite your political affiliation: &#8216;We, in Ireland, can&#8217;t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States! On one side, you have a pants wearing woman lawyer, married to a lawyer who can&#8217;t keep his pants on, Who just lost a long and heated primary against: A lawyer who goes to the wrong church who is married to yet another lawyer who doesn&#8217;t even like the country her husband wants to run. Now&#8230;On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate &#8220;Mc&#8221; terminology married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship. What in Lord&#8217;s name are ye lads thinking over there in the colonies??&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow,  I&#8217;m a big fan of the no nonsense approach of McCain, although I disagree on some of his approaches on the environment. But I also like the excitement that Obama can bring to a crowd. His pulpit-like speaking tones make people feel like he really wants change. So the questions are: Do you think the email is part of a viral email campaign? and With both these candidates technically having Irish heritage, does it play any part in your decision for whom to vote?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently starting receiving the email below. It&#8217;s amusing the first couple times so I thought I&#8217;d share. Interestingly, it&#8217;s hit my inbox from multiple sources which makes me think it&#8217;s the latest in a viral campaign. It also made me wonder what the original source was. First, here&#8217;s the email text: Email &#8220;Leave it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[21,18,19,20,81],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-irish","tag-email-jokes","tag-irish","tag-mccain","tag-obama","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}