{"id":3383,"date":"2008-09-24T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:03:41","slug":"how-the-mccain-stole-christmas-a-du-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"How The McCain Stole Christmas, a DU tale&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/grinch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3388\" title=\"grinch1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/grinch1-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/grinch1-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/grinch1.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Photoshop by my internet wife Caroline)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=389x4075518\">Like I need to tell you where this comes from.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>QuestionAll (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-24-08 10:05 AM<br \/>\nWould an Obama win help save the Christmas shopping season&#8230;?<br \/>\nall reports are predicting a VERY GRIM holiday shopping season, for myriad reasons, many that should be fairly obvious&#8230;gas prices, food prices, economic uncertainty&#8230;yadda tadda yadda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BUT-<\/p>\n<p>if WHEN Obama wins, will it give the population enough of a sense of optimism for the future and changes that are hopefully coming, that they find a way to go out and spend some money on gifts and the like to help them feel even that much better&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>and if they steal it for mccain, we&#8217;ll have one of the worst xmas shopping seasons EVER.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude, and just imagine what he will do to other Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I heard he was a founding member of the Temperance movement, which means both St Paddy&#8217;s Day and Cinco de Mayo are screwed.  He can&#8217;t eat sweets, so goodbye Easter, no chocolate bunnies and animal shaped marshmallow treats for you.  And Thanksgiving?  Puhleez- the man is the one who gave the native Americans the polo tainted blankets. <\/p>\n<p>Word has it that Columbus Day will be okay.  Only time will tell, but for the sake of our planet, our children, and the entire Time\/Space Continuum, how could we take a chance by voting McCain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photoshop by my internet wife Caroline) Like I need to tell you where this comes from. &hellip; <a title=\"How The McCain Stole Christmas, a DU tale&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3383\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How The McCain Stole Christmas, a DU tale&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}