{"id":459,"date":"2008-12-03T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T00:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=459"},"modified":"2009-11-02T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T01:01:23","slug":"obamas-big-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Big Bus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At least up until the last &#8220;election&#8221; or two, you used to hear a lot \u2013 especially from the Donkeycrats<\/strong> \u2013 about the proverbial &#8220;Big Tent&#8221;, ostensibly used to symbolize the Party&#8217;s diverse constituencies, but actually just a cheesy way for your Party to pander to segments of the voting population it normally wouldn&#8217;t give the time of day to.<\/p>\n<p>Once again though, huge props to the Obama Cult for taking this concept a bold step further. Amazing, how quick and efficient he was, too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-460\" title=\"bigbus550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigbus550w.jpg\" alt=\"bigbus550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigbus550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigbus550w-96x150.jpg 96w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigbus550w-321x500.jpg 321w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigbus550w-385x600.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hear that, UFPJ? Hear that, Code Pink? He already wants to expand the war into Afghanistan? He&#8217;s roped in your votes, he&#8217;s got what he needed from you, now your ass is under the bus!<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists? Didn&#8217;t he shift his position on offshore oil drilling? D&#8217;ohh, under you go. Looking like some awesome parties at the Inauguration, though.<\/p>\n<p>Gays? Lesbians? Let&#8217;s not even go there. He doesn&#8217;t even want you to be able to marry. He&#8217;s even invited that born-again creep, Rick Warren, the Purpose-Driven Gay Basher, to <em>speak at his friggin&#8217; Inauguration!<\/em> Why the hell did you all go for him so much? Doesn&#8217;t matter, you&#8217;re gone anyway. Crunch. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on, but you can see where I&#8217;m headed. The wheels on the bus go &#8217;round and &#8217;round&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Obama's Big Bus!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/bigbus\/bigbus.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image, <\/strong><\/a>650k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least up until the last &#8220;election&#8221; or two, you used to hear a lot \u2013 especially from the Donkeycrats \u2013 about the proverbial &#8220;Big Tent&#8221;, ostensibly used to symbolize the Party&#8217;s diverse constituencies, but actually just a cheesy way for your Party to pander to segments of the voting population it normally wouldn&#8217;t give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,82,158,9],"tags":[1459,1461,160,1456,145,159],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-obamarama","category-war-and-peace","tag-afghanistan","tag-environment","tag-gays","tag-iraq","tag-obama","tag-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}