{"id":88,"date":"2008-10-07T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/2008\/10\/07\/presidential-candidate-linked-to-radical-ties\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:26:16","slug":"presidential-candidate-linked-to-radical-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Candidate linked to radical ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8211; Accusations flew fast and furious today over accusations that a leading presidential candidate had radical ties.<img src='http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/piano-piano-tie.gif' alt='Piano Tie' align=right \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These pictures are solid proof that this man is not ready to lead this country. The evidence is before your eyes,&#8221; said a senior campaign spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>On display at the press conference were graphic photos of polka dot ties, light-up ties, a piano tie, and even a tie with a three-dimensional realistic hamburger protruding from it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an era of crisis,&#8221; stated the spokesperson, &#8220;we cannot afford to allow our country to be distracted by novelty items such as these.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An immediate rebuttal was issued claiming the ties in question were only given to the candidate as gifts and were never worn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than rudely return the items, or worse, re-gift them, these ties were respectfully stored at the bottom of a closet where they belong. We see no impropriety here and disclosed these ties at the beginning of our campaign,&#8221; read the statement. &#8220;We call on our opponent to fully disclose all his ties, and let the American people judge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most voters say they don&#8217;t care about what ties candidates may have had in the past, but rather whether their current appearance is genuine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8211; Accusations flew fast and furious today over accusations that a leading presidential candidate had radical ties. &#8220;These pictures are solid proof that this man is not ready to lead this country. The evidence is before your eyes,&#8221; said a senior campaign spokesperson. On display at the press conference were graphic photos of polka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}