{"id":244,"date":"2008-06-13T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/lisbon-treaty-ballad-for-an-undecided-irish-voter\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T19:48:30","slug":"lisbon-treaty-ballad-for-an-undecided-irish-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/lisbon-treaty-ballad-for-an-undecided-irish-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon Treaty: Ballad for an Undecided Irish Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for a smirking, cynical over-simplification of yesterday&#8217;s vote on the Lisbon Treaty? If so, <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Ballad for an Undecided Irish Voter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Part One, to the tune of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscar_Mayer\">Oscar Mayer<\/a> wiener jingle. (MP3 available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraftfoods.com\/oscarmayer\/omm_funjingle.htm\">on this page<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I like to be an undecided voter,<br \/>\nThat is what I really like to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cause when I am an undecided voter,<br \/>\nAll attention is squarely put on me!<\/p>\n<p>But, I wish not to be an undecided voter,<br \/>\nFor referendum of the Lisbon Treaty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cause I can&#8217;t tell what it all means for Ireland,<br \/>\nAnd everybody just shouts threats at me!<\/p>\n<p>Part Two, to the tune of the Oscar Mayer wiener song. (MP3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraftfoods.com\/oscarmayer\/media\/ombolognasong.mp3\">also available<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This treaty has a first name,<br \/>\nL-I-S-B-O-N.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/oireachtas.ie\/ViewDoc.asp?fn=\/documents\/a-misc\/deputy.htm&#038;CatID=107&#038;m=d\">TD<\/a> has suggestions:<br \/>\nY-E-S or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebo.com\/BlogView.jsp?MemberId=17369032&#038;BlogId=6914987153\">T\u00e1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t know just what that means<br \/>\nso instead of vote, I&#8217;d rather say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Explain it well or else you&#8217;ll pay,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sick of both sides any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for a smirking, cynical over-simplification of yesterday&#8217;s vote on the Lisbon Treaty? If so,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,17],"tags":[25,766,29,26,28,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}