{"id":2643,"date":"2007-10-24T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/24\/presidential-campaign-round-up\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:04:00","slug":"presidential-campaign-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/24\/presidential-campaign-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Campaign Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gravel&#8230; will not be participating in the next presidential debate.\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess all I have to look forward to is a new youtube video where he stares into the camera with intent silence.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Giuliani, Mr. New York and\u00c2\u00a0Mr. &#8220;Look at my Yankees\u00c2\u00a0cap!&#8221;,\u00c2\u00a0made a major faux pax by saying, for the benefit of New\u00c2\u00a0Hamsphire primary voters &#8212; still Red Sox Country, that\u00c2\u00a0he was rooting for the Red Sox.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think you can underestimate the power of the sports fan in dashing about such wanton\u00c2\u00a0pandering.\u00c2\u00a0 He declares it is a matter of rooting for the American League, something akin to rooting for a piece of architecture, methinks.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Thompson has been putting his audiences to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a really strange campaign where he is the Republican Saviour.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton has been playing along with Drudge, developing a wink and nod strategy with that tedious Internet standby.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, Rudy&#8217;s baseball gaffe has spotlighted her old gaffe of a few years ago where she said that if the Yankees and Cubs both made the World Series, she would alternate between rooting for the two teams.\u00c2\u00a0 I admit to having done such a thing before with two basketball teams I could care less about\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; to the confusion of the people I watching the game with &#8212; in cheering on any play that looked cool.\u00c2\u00a0 (I need to work up my Skull and Bones racket regarding Hillary Clinton, and line things up for a thought-bubble.)<\/p>\n<p>The scandal that has been plaguing Barack Obama involves the fact that he is not wearing a flag-pin.\u00c2\u00a0 I will say that I would have greater respect for him in the flag-pin flack if when asked he hadn&#8217;t given a spiel about the true meaning of Patriotism, but instead had told the questioner to bug off.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, this matter may be one of those wink and nod jobs with Hillary and Drudge &#8212; Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed by the world&#8217;s most famous Crystal Stroker that Dennis Kucinich saw a UFO.\u00c2\u00a0 But supposedly so did Jimmy Carter.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps they can get together and compare and contrast.<\/p>\n<p>If I were the Republican Party, I would nominate Mike Huckabee.\u00c2\u00a0 I firmly believe he to be the party&#8217;s best chance in snagging the White House in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>A trip to Mitt Romney&#8217;s blogonetwork shows the Romney supporters trumpeting his Mormonism as an asset in terms of fire-fighting.\u00c2\u00a0 It goes along with the Mormon tendency to\u00c2\u00a0prepare for the rugged Apocalypse to Come.<\/p>\n<p>Various Internet sites of Conservative\u00c2\u00a0status, redstate and free republic,\u00c2\u00a0have\u00c2\u00a0taken to\u00c2\u00a0banning Ron Paul supporters from their site.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Retarded Vulture Fringe&#8221; is how redstate calls it.\u00c2\u00a0 Wrong critter, I says.<\/p>\n<p>John McCain made fun of Woodstock at the last Republican debate, which only added to the sense that he is old and out of touch.\u00c2\u00a0 You don&#8217;t make Woodstock jokes, and you shouldn&#8217;t have for maybe the last 20 years.\u00c2\u00a0 (Maybe he can go back to the &#8220;Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran&#8221; singing?)<\/p>\n<p>Chris Dodd&#8217;s campaign has proven to be most useful, in setting a bar with which his fellow Democratic Senate Presidential hopefuls need to meet, currently in line with Amnesty for the Telecom industry regarding FISA misdeeds.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Joseph Biden and Alan Keyes have done or said anything interesting, and it speaks volumes about the campaigns of anyone whose name I have not mentioned.\u00c2\u00a0 But now that I&#8217;m thinking about it&#8230; Say&#8230; what&#8217;s John Cox up to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gravel&#8230; will not be participating in the next presidential debate.\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess all I have to look forward to is a new youtube video where he stares into the camera with intent silence. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. New York and\u00c2\u00a0Mr. &#8220;Look at my Yankees\u00c2\u00a0cap!&#8221;,\u00c2\u00a0made a major faux pax by saying, for the benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-gravel","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","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=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}