I have, for the most part, tried to stay away from the public primary process.\u00c2\u00a0 There is something about this that makes otherwise reasonable people become the biggest assholes, show the smallest minds, and engage in ridiculous hypocrisies.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To what end?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m really not sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Barring Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich, I think any of the Democratic field would make a fine President.\u00c2\u00a0 (Sorry, Dennis.\u00c2\u00a0 I admire your positions more than any other candidates.\u00c2\u00a0 I just have no faith in your effectiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 And Joe?\u00c2\u00a0 STFU.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you that.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy yourself in the Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s perfect for you.)<\/p>\n
That said, we’re now less than a year away from the general election, and the primaries (messes that they are) are mere months away.\u00c2\u00a0 So ‘ll probably start talking about that now.\u00c2\u00a0 To start it off on a somewhat positive note, I’ll highlight something I *like* – one candidate responding to another candidate’s whispering campaign with “put up or shut up<\/a>.”\u00c2\u00a0 While there’s no shortage of actual dirt amongst politicians, the tendency to traffic in wholly unsubstantiated charges is particularly galling for me.\u00c2\u00a0 So it’s nice to see someone up the ante by trying to bring it out into the open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have, for the most part, tried to stay away from the public primary process.\u00c2\u00a0 There is something about this that makes otherwise reasonable people become the biggest assholes, show the smallest minds, and engage in ridiculous hypocrisies.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To what end?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m really not sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Barring Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich, I think any of […]<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}