{"id":446,"date":"2008-04-10T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/04\/proofreaders-for-president.html"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:39:00","slug":"proofreaders-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/04\/proofreaders-for-president.html","title":{"rendered":"Proofreaders for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/polldancing\/2008\/04\/johm-mccain-300x246.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 320px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/polldancing\/2008\/04\/johm-mccain-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span><br \/>Just a quick note:<\/span> If you&#8217;re running for president, and if you&#8217;re going to spend millions of dollars to advertise yourself, and if you&#8217;re trying to restore competency to a presidency and party that has come to be known as pretty much incompetent, then there is one thing you need to do correctly, all the time:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Spell your own name right. <\/span>Yes, I&#8217;m talking to you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/polldancing\/?p=425\">JOHM McCAIN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just a little marketing tip from your friendly neighborhood copywriter.<\/p>\n<p>[H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/polldancing\/?p=425\">Texas Monthly&#8217;s Poll Dancing blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note: If you&#8217;re running for president, and if you&#8217;re going to spend millions of dollars to advertise yourself, and if you&#8217;re trying to restore competency to a presidency and party that has come to be known as pretty much incompetent, then there is one thing you need to do correctly, all the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-politics","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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