{"id":1018,"date":"2010-05-01T01:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=456"},"modified":"2010-05-01T01:16:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T01:16:58","slug":"the-one-common-denominator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"the one common denominator…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We did a street corner, whistle-stop event in downtown Orange, Texas, yesterday as part of our Deep in the Heart of Texas Tour. \u00a0 <\/em>Afterward I was interviewed by reporter Tommy Man Jr. of the Orange Leader<\/em> newspaper. \u00a0 I said we’ve just crossed the 50 million abortion mark in America, global warming looms like a scary doomsday scenario, violence and drugs have turned the inner cities of America into war zones, we have a $12 trillion National Debt… \u00a0 And the common denominator? \u00a0 For about the past 20 years, we have had presidents out of Harvard and Yale. \u00a0 I said that this might, oh, indicate that what you learn at Harvard and Yale doesn’t equip you to solve these kinds of societal problems. \u00a0 In fact, maybe what we need in D.C. is some “good old fashioned common sense.” \u00a0 I mean… \u00a0 \u00a0 While in Orange, I also interviewed Vivian Kelly who is the director of Birthright here. \u00a0 They provide counseling, food, clothing, monetary help… to women who choose to keep their baby. \u00a0 “We were able to save 41 babies last year,” \u00a0 said Ms. Kelly… \u00a0 Incidentally, a bill just passed in Oklahoma that requires women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the unborn baby before getting an abortion. \u00a0 This includes information about the arms, legs, internal organs, heartbeat… All the things that, well, human beings have. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Tonight we protested abortion on a street corner in Orange. \u00a0 The sign I held simply said: \u00a0 Abortion Kills Children<\/strong>. \u00a0 And it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We did a street corner, whistle-stop event in downtown Orange, Texas, yesterday as part of our Deep in the Heart of Texas Tour. \u00a0 Afterward I was interviewed by reporter Tommy Man Jr. of the Orange Leader newspaper. \u00a0 I …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}