{"id":4895,"date":"2010-09-10T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T10:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/09\/catholic-votes-new-ad-we-are-americans.html"},"modified":"2010-09-10T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T10:49:43","slug":"catholic-votes-new-ad-we-are-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/09\/catholic-votes-new-ad-we-are-americans.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Vote&#8217;s new ad: &#8220;We are Americans&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the final emphatic line of this new ad from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicvote.org\/index.php\">CatholicVote.org.<\/a>  It&#8217;s not nearly as effective as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61wj4tJICcc&amp;feature=related\">the ads they produced for the&#8217;08 election<\/a>, and I find a lot of this frankly over-the-top.  But it certainly makes its point.  Take a look.  <\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IDfVZRJcu5s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IDfVZRJcu5s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><\/object> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the final emphatic line of this new ad from CatholicVote.org. It&#8217;s not nearly as effective as the ads they produced for the&#8217;08 election, and I find a lot of this frankly over-the-top. But it certainly makes its point. 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