{"id":3781,"date":"2010-09-29T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2010-09-29T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T21:46:59","slug":"democratic-voter-apathy-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/09\/29\/democratic-voter-apathy-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Half-Assed Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear President Obama:<\/p>\n<p>Please enlighten me. What exactly is your strategy to win back your base and persuade liberals to vote this November?<\/p>\n<p>Does your plan involve pissing off progressives even more? Does it entail compensating for your lack of  strength and progressive vision by blaming progressives for our own apathy?<\/p>\n<p>If so, then you&#8217;re doing a really good job.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s Half-Assed Message (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Obama, you&#8217;re right &#8212; Dems must vote.<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s something I simply must note:<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re weak and a muck up.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t tell  your base &#8220;Buck up!&#8221;<br \/>\nAll you&#8217;re doing is getting our goat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear President Obama: Please enlighten me. What exactly is your strategy to win back your base and persuade liberals to vote this November? Does your plan involve pissing off progressives even more? Does it entail compensating for your lack of strength and progressive vision by blaming progressives for our own apathy? If so, then you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,95,72,81,119,21,1094,154,6,7,3,610,17],"tags":[192,1396,194,1410,1229,348,1142,1395],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44-humor","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-democrats-satire","category-donkeys-elephants","category-election-satire","category-leadership-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-voting-satire","category-white-house","tag-campaign-satire","tag-democratic-enthusiasm-gap","tag-election-humor","tag-gotv","tag-liberals-satire","tag-obama-verse","tag-progressives","tag-voter-apathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}