{"id":1406,"date":"2008-10-06T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2008-10-06T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T22:30:08","slug":"republicans-and-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/06\/republicans-and-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans and Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As best I can tell, the Republican strategy &#8211; no, actually, the core tenent of its faith &#8211; is to take every sin you actually commit and wail about how others are doing just that to you.\u00c2\u00a0 John McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/222273.php\">seems to have it down perfectly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did John McCain really <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/10\/new_mccain_attack_who_is_the_r.php\">just say that <em>Barack Obama<\/em> gets &#8220;touchy&#8221; and &#8220;angry&#8221;<\/a> whenever he gets questioned on his credentials or policies? I know that projection is a common psychological phenomenon, especially for those who find themselves in desperate situations. But for a set piece speech that must mean it&#8217;s afflicted McCain&#8217;s entire campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the dead-enders will accept him as one of them, now?\u00c2\u00a0 Something else that comes to mind &#8211; just how uninformed\/pathetically devoted do you have to be to be a McCain\/Palin *supporter* at this point?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, I can understand not finding Obama appealing, but to find McCain\/Palin to be something that you affirmatively support?\u00c2\u00a0 Boggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As best I can tell, the Republican strategy &#8211; no, actually, the core tenent of its faith &#8211; is to take every sin you actually commit and wail about how others are doing just that to you.\u00c2\u00a0 John McCain seems to have it down perfectly: Did John McCain really just say that Barack Obama gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}