{"id":3166,"date":"2008-09-24T21:33:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T01:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2008-09-24T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T01:33:57","slug":"mccainorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"McCainorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellen-datlow.livejournal.com\/119494.html\">Ellen Datlow<\/a> offers the following challenge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tell me something about John McCain and\/or Sarah Palin that will make me think well of them as candidates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best I could come up with is that their tactics &#8212; and increasingly obvious ineptitude &#8212; will send more voters running in the opposite direction. Hey, that&#8217;s something, right?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, it seems like there&#8217;s not a single day that goes by that there&#8217;s another reason to vote against John McCain in the upcoming election. Even on the good days, when he doesn&#8217;t throw a hissy fit and <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/mccains_bottom_line_no_deal_no.php\">threaten to not show up at a presidential debate<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\">Gerry Canavan<\/a> has more links on that.) <\/p>\n<p>The best I can say for the McCain\/Palin ticket is that it continues to surprise me. Every time I think it can&#8217;t get any worse, or sink any lower, it does. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/happyvalleynews.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/19\/things-that-have-not-gone-wrong-during-the-bush-administration\/\">Remind you of anybody<\/a>?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Datlow offers the following challenge: Tell me something about John McCain and\/or Sarah Palin that will make me think well of them as candidates. The best I could come up with is that their tactics &#8212; and increasingly obvious ineptitude &#8212; will send more voters running in the opposite direction. Hey, that&#8217;s something, right? &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3166\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}