{"id":868,"date":"2009-01-01T02:32:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T02:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-01-01T02:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T02:32:34","slug":"123108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"12\/31\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Year’s Eve:<\/strong> \u00a0 Bombs fall on the Gaza Strip. \u00a0 As I write this, reports indicate there are already some 400 Palestinians dead, 1,400 injured. \u00a0 A picture in our Plain Dealer<\/em> newspaper showed a bomb exploding in a building just beyond one, of many, refugee camps in Gaza. \u00a0 Meanwhile, we sit back comfortably in \u00a0America and watch this unfold \u00a0in an antiseptic \u00a0way on the nightly news. \u00a0 Bombs exploding, \u00a0innocent civilians (Moms, Dads, little children) being killed, maimed, cowering in darkened hallways as more jets zoom overhead… \u00a0 And even with all this, few Americans really<\/em> \u00a0 care. \u00a0 Or they’d show \u00a0 it. \u00a0 \u00a0That simple. \u00a0 They’d enter into solidarity with the innocent poor and oppressed in Palestine, for instance, and sacrifice all over the place to generate all kinds of funds to get those people in Gaza out of the slum conditions of the refugee camps, for one. \u00a0 The overeating we’ll do New Year’s Day alone tomorrow — \u00a0all the \u00a0non-nutritional junk food and beverages we spoil ourselves with — while people live in terror, in squalor, is absolutely unconscienable. \u00a0 \u00a0If I were president… I’d \u00a0adamantly confront the American public about this and challenge them to sacrifice intensely for a massive fundraising drive to get as much humanitarian help to Palestine as possible. \u00a0 Common sense says that by easing some of the poverty, \u00a0you’d significantly ease some of the tension over there. \u00a0This would be \u00a0a component \u00a0of my<\/em> \u00a0 ‘Road Map for Peace’ between Israel and Palestine. \u00a0 \u00a0 Peace often comes with a price. \u00a0 But is the American public really willing to pay it? \u00a0 Or are we going to go on forever supreflously lamenting about it — at half time of the Bowl games? \u00a0 Meanwhile Barrack Obama plays golf at a country club in Hawaii. \u00a0 The greens fee alone for one round, I imagine, would be enough to get, say, 10 families out of a refugee camp in Gaza. \u00a0 What kind of example is this for the nation? \u00a0 \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 We are readying for our first tour of Campaign 2012 to get our message of peace, social justice, Life… out to as many more as possible. \u00a0 And we need donations to do that. \u00a0 If you can help, please consider it. \u00a0 Thanks. Schriner Presidential Election Committee, 2100 W. 38th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44113.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Year’s Eve: \u00a0 Bombs fall on the Gaza Strip. \u00a0 As I write this, reports indicate there are already some 400 Palestinians dead, 1,400 injured. \u00a0 A picture in our Plain Dealer newspaper showed a bomb exploding in a …<\/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-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}