{"id":274,"date":"2007-11-11T02:05:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/11\/11\/confucius-say-you-will-vote-for-obama\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T00:15:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:15:39","slug":"confucius-say-you-will-vote-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/confucius-say-you-will-vote-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Confucius say, You will vote for Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters at the Jefferson Jackson dinner in Iowa were scarfing done fortune cookies provided by Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign as they were the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-blog.com\/swampland\/2007\/11\/jefferson_jackson_dinner_obama.html\">only things they had to eat<\/a>. Per <a href=\"http:\/\/thegarance.com\/archives\/945\">Garance&#8217;s France-Ruta<\/a>&#8216;s observations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama campaign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iowa spokesman Tommy Vietor walked by the press riser, at one point, tossing fortune cookies to reporters and cameramen, like fish to waiting seals. Cracked open, the cookies contained the message, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paid for By Obama for America,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with a little union bug. On the reverse, they read \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Iowans Will Caucus for Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You are fired up. Obama is ready to go.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Here is a slightly out-of-focus fortune presented by Ana Marie Cox.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/11\/11\/confucius-say-you-will-vote-for-obama\/ana-marie-cox-and-barack-obama-fortune-cookie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-276\" title=\"Ana Marie Cox and Barack Obama fortune cookie\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/11\/11\/confucius-say-you-will-vote-for-obama\/ana-marie-cox-and-barack-obama-fortune-cookie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-276\" title=\"Ana Marie Cox and Barack Obama fortune cookie\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/anamariecoxandobamafortune.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Marie Cox and Barack Obama fortune cookie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Those are actually pretty bad fortunes (Barack Obama needs new fortune cookie writers, or his speechwriters needs to get in on the game). But fortune cookies have a long history in political campaigns, specifically presidential ones. In 1960 alone (the first recorded time they were used in a political season), they were used in both the Adlai Stevenson campaign and the Stuart Symington campaign. Abraham Beame used them in his 1965 New York mayoral race and someone even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tso-pdf-1972-chicago-tribune-daley-gets-green-fortune-cookie.pdf\" title=\"1972 Chicago Tribune article, Mayor Daley gets green fortune cookie\">presented presented Chicago Mayor Richard Daley with green fortune cookies as a prank in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Tait Sye for passing along the Obama tip)<br \/>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters at the Jefferson Jackson dinner in Iowa were scarfing done fortune cookies provided by Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign as they were the only things they had to eat. Per Garance&#8217;s France-Ruta&#8216;s observations: The Obama campaign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iowa spokesman Tommy Vietor walked by the press riser, at one point, tossing fortune cookies to reporters and cameramen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortune-cookies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}