{"id":2864,"date":"2008-04-20T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T23:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/20\/lincoln-douglas-that-aint\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T23:57:05","slug":"lincoln-douglas-that-aint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/04\/20\/lincoln-douglas-that-aint\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln &#8212; Douglas that ain&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That debate was many things.\u00c2\u00a0 Chief amongst them is a waste of time, except that it had some effect on the political spheroid.<\/p>\n<p>It was the death and dearth of the American news media and political discourse, surely.\u00c2\u00a0 Blatant craven to the lowest common denominator.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It\u00c2\u00a0showed the\u00c2\u00a0power of the right-wing echo chamber. \u00c2\u00a0And the continued fight over Flag politics over any matter of actual substance.\u00c2\u00a0 All you really need to know about the situation in American political media\u00c2\u00a0is that when the League of Women Voters had an actual debate with actual issues and actual discussion, Chris Matthews cried that it was boring.<\/p>\n<p>But it also seemed to bring to mind Tom Franks and the What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas premise&#8230; We shall see how Obama works against Hillary&#8217;s charge that he&#8217;s whining by Obama&#8217;s charge that that debate was a bunch of bs.\u00c2\u00a0 We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That debate was many things.\u00c2\u00a0 Chief amongst them is a waste of time, except that it had some effect on the political spheroid. It was the death and dearth of the American news media and political discourse, surely.\u00c2\u00a0 Blatant craven to the lowest common denominator.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It\u00c2\u00a0showed the\u00c2\u00a0power of the right-wing echo chamber. \u00c2\u00a0And the continued fight [&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-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}