{"id":579,"date":"2007-12-10T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/12\/10\/bring-it-on-the-2008-democratic-primary\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T16:09:45","slug":"bring-it-on-the-2008-democratic-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/12\/10\/bring-it-on-the-2008-democratic-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring It On: The 2008 Democratic Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias, in the process of <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/on_message_1.php\">contemplating<\/a> the importance of branding, reminded me of one of my favorite movies in the world &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0204946\/\">Bring It On<\/a>.  I love this movie for so many reasons, no the least among of which is that it gives us this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r3d2-uiBEw0\">perfect cheer opener<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m sexy, I&#8217;m cute, I&#8217;m popular to boot!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I screwed up cracking a joke about that in his comments, which led me to take another look at the lyrics (go on, pretend that I don&#8217;t know them by heart).  And in doing so, I realized that this cheer may well be the perfect prism through which to view the 2008 Democratic Primary.  I think we can pretty easily assign the next three lines from that cheer, no?<\/p>\n<p>Take it, John:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m bitchin&#8217;, great hair! The boys all love to stare!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over to you, Barack:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m wanted, I&#8217;m hot! I&#8217;m everything you&#8217;re not!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go, Hillary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m pretty, I&#8217;m cool! I dominate this school!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2008 primary, explained in three easy lines from an 8 year old movie.  I&#8217;m tempted to assign lines to the second tier (Joe Biden: &#8220;I&#8217;m major! I roar! I swear I&#8217;m not a whore!&#8221;), but I&#8217;ve probably embarrassed myself enough already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias, in the process of contemplating the importance of branding, reminded me of one of my favorite movies in the world &#8211; Bring It On. I love this movie for so many reasons, no the least among of which is that it gives us this perfect cheer opener: I&#8217;m sexy, I&#8217;m cute, I&#8217;m popular [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}