{"id":12664,"date":"2013-08-12T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=12664"},"modified":"2013-08-12T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:35:11","slug":"the-civil-war-rages-in-message-board-comments-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/08\/12\/the-civil-war-rages-in-message-board-comments-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Civil War rages in message board comments land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we get this article. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/316489-gop-anxiety-grows-over-georgia-senate-race\">\u00c2\u00a0About the Republican Primary for US Senate in the state of Georgia.<\/a> \u00c2\u00a0A many folded bunch&#8230; a couple of them might lose to the Democrats&#8217; selected pick.<\/p>\n<p>And then we go into the comments section to see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>THE BIG DEBATE!!!<\/p>\n<p>Point: Georgians despise traitors. Libbers lose!<br \/>\nCounterpoint #1: \u00c2\u00a0But Georgia was a traitor in 1861, so that explains why you hate yourself.<br \/>\nPoint: \u00c2\u00a01861 &#8230; the year you went insane!<br \/>\nCounterpoint: \u00c2\u00a0But I recovered in 1864 when they burned Atlanta to the ground.<br \/>\nCounterPoint #2: \u00c2\u00a0But they were traitors to the USA. \u00c2\u00a0Americans had to burn their state to maintain the Union. \u00c2\u00a0So, your comment is a bit odd.<br \/>\nCounterpoint to Counterpoint: \u00c2\u00a0Incorrect. They simply chose to leave which was well within their Constitutional right.<br \/>\nCounterpoint: \u00c2\u00a0I think Mr. Lincoln and time have proven you wrong.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s<br \/>\nPoint: \u00c2\u00a0You have probably never been here. Our state is stronger than ever. Our cost of living is very reasonable, which is demonstrated by the rapid growth here compared to other states. Your comment is ridiculous!<br \/>\nCounterpoint: \u00c2\u00a0That will change once the statists take advantage of &#8220;demographic changes.&#8221; Georgia will be South Massachusetts in no time. Good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, you can&#8217;t call this racial code&#8230; er&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;South Massachusetts&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>We then get into some discussion on Obama being called a Socialist, with the interesting quip, &#8220;There are many people who come from a socialist country that say Obama and the Democrats are socialists.&#8221; that then clicks to a youtube video of an ad I remember from the 2008 campaign of one of &#8230; er&#8230; &#8220;Some Rich Schmuk who came from the old Soviet Union who bought an anti-Obama ad&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we get this article. \u00c2\u00a0About the Republican Primary for US Senate in the state of Georgia. \u00c2\u00a0A many folded bunch&#8230; a couple of them might lose to the Democrats&#8217; selected pick. And then we go into the comments section to see&#8230; THE BIG DEBATE!!! Point: Georgians despise traitors. Libbers lose! Counterpoint #1: \u00c2\u00a0But Georgia [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-12664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12665,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions\/12665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}