{"id":1408,"date":"2012-09-08T02:44:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T02:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2013-01-16T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T23:08:47","slug":"lower-middle-class-jane-tour-bus-mcdonalds-stumping-wobbling-during-the-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"lower middle class; “Jane”; tour bus; McDonald’s stumping; wobbling during the DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last couple weeks, the Repulicans and Democrats at their National Conventions have been tripping all over themselves in speeches talking about their “humble” middle class, or lower, beginnings.\u00a0 Meanwhile our family, and the campaign in general,\u00a0live right\u00a0smack dab in the middle of, well:\u00a0lower middle class…\u00a0 On a tour of northwest Ohio the past few days, I stumped at “Pioneer Days” in Kalida, Ohio (pop. a couple thousand).\u00a0 I passed out campaign cards and talked with Jane, a relatively new celebrity in town.\u00a0\u00a0“Jane”\u00a0and her husband were pictured standing next to their powder blue 1951 Chevy in the middle of a new town mural which had been “unveiled,” so to speak, earlier in the day as a kickoff for the festival.\u00a0 That’s right, while Obama was rubbing elbows with NBA stars and Romney was back stage with Clint Eastwood, I was with: Jane in Kalida…\u00a0\u00a0 Today I awoke early to our camper being surrounded by a group of cars and people chattering away in the back of a Wal-Mart parking lot in Ottawa, Ohio.\u00a0 I bounded out (the best you can “bound out” at six in the morning) with a handful of campaign cards.\u00a0 Only to find this was a group of men from the Amvets Club, and their wives, waiting for a tour bus to take them to Traverse Bay in Michigan.\u00a0 I smiled, gave them the campaign cards anyway and waved as the bus headed out…\u00a0 Later at McDonald’s, while having a cup of coffee, I overheard the people at the booth behind me talking about Paul Ryan.\u00a0 I walked up to the table and said:\u00a0 “Funny you should be talking about politics…”\u00a0 (I’m not shy.)\u00a0 After passing out some campaign cards there, I headed home…\u00a0 Yet despite all this campaigning, the polls still<\/em> show we’re behind.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 There was\u00a0that wobbling during the DNC about taking the word “God” out of the platform, or not.\u00a0 You know, its such a tough call with the Democrats.\u00a0 They want to make sure everyone has access to quality healthcare.\u00a0 They are intent on wanting to help those on the margins in the inner cities.\u00a0 They are for helping immigrants.\u00a0 And these are all, in essence, admirable — and\u00a0very much in line with the gospel message.\u00a0 The rub is that\u00a0most of them are also in favor of: dismembering innocent little babies in their mothers’ wombs.\u00a0 What a tremedously stark dichotomy.\u00a0 And one where, by attrition, you couldn’t help but take God out of the equation.\u00a0 I mean, c’mmon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last couple weeks, the Repulicans and Democrats at their National Conventions have been tripping all over themselves in speeches talking about their “humble” middle class, or lower, beginnings.\u00a0 Meanwhile our family, and the campaign in general,\u00a0live right\u00a0smack dab …<\/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-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","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=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}