{"id":130,"date":"2004-10-01T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/?p=130"},"modified":"2004-10-01T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T16:07:26","slug":"a-political-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"a political post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting the way extremes start to become each other.  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/oct04\/ehren1004.html\">Barbara Ehrenreich<\/a>, proposing to disenfranchise anybody who votes Republican by demanding a recall of the duly elected President (or instigating a bloody coup, it&#8217;s quite ambiguous what exactly she&#8217;s proposing here), should he turn out to be a Republican.  This is on behalf of disenfranchisement of minority voters, since she&#8217;s already decided any Republican victory will necessarily have been the result of fraudulent&#8230;disenfranchisement.  (Already tired of that word).  I&#8217;m not sure of the point of the part of her article where she tries to determine what institution will give the official word re. election fraud, since it&#8217;s clear the issue has already been decided.<br \/>\nApparently, I&#8217;ve sunk low enough to start attacking <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/default.htm\">The Progressive<\/a><\/i>, ordinarily much too easy a target.  See what this election is doing to me?!?<br \/>\n(In order to attempt to maintain my bipartisan status, I&#8217;ll be looking for some conservative commentator to get exasperated with next.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting the way extremes start to become each other. Here&#8217;s Barbara Ehrenreich, proposing to disenfranchise anybody who votes Republican by demanding a recall of the duly elected President (or instigating a bloody coup, it&#8217;s quite ambiguous what exactly she&#8217;s proposing here), should he turn out to be a Republican. This is on behalf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}