{"id":1650,"date":"2012-10-23T18:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/10\/23\/essential-truths\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:25:21","slug":"essential-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/10\/23\/essential-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nIf God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Jay Leno<\/p>\n<p>\t    The problem with political jokes is they get elected.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Henry Cate, VII<\/p>\n<p>\t    We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Aesop<\/p>\n<p>\t    If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union<br \/>\n\t    speeches, there wouldn&#8217;t be any inducement to go to heaven.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Will Rogers<\/p>\n<p>\t    Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even<br \/>\n\t    where there is no river.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Nikita Khrushchev<\/p>\n<p>\t    When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;<br \/>\n\t    I&#8217;m beginning to believe it.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Clarence Darrow<\/p>\n<p>\t    Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your<br \/>\n\t    opponents will do it for you.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Author unknown<\/p>\n<p>\t    Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,<br \/>\n\t    go out and buy some more tunnel.<br \/>\n\t    ~ John Quinton<\/p>\n<p>\t    Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign<br \/>\n\t    funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Oscar Ameringer<\/p>\n<p>\t    I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us,<br \/>\n\t    I will stop telling the truth about them.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Adlai Stevenson, 1952 campaign speech<\/p>\n<p>\t    A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Tex Guinan<\/p>\n<p>\t    I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be<br \/>\n\t    left to the politicians.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Charles de Gaulle<\/p>\n<p>\t    Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to<br \/>\n\t    change the locks.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Doug Larson<\/p>\n<p>\t    There ought to be one day &#8212; just one &#8212; when there is open season on senators.<br \/>\n\t    ~ Will Rogers<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~ Jay Leno The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~ Henry Cate, VII We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}