{"id":3227,"date":"2008-12-05T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/05\/the-slosh-slishes-around-the-political-spectrum-for-the-worse-all-around\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:18:28","slug":"the-slosh-slishes-around-the-political-spectrum-for-the-worse-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/05\/the-slosh-slishes-around-the-political-spectrum-for-the-worse-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"The slosh slishes around the political spectrum, for the worse all around"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a bit of a symmetry\u00c2\u00a0between this<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(which I picked up via Andrew Sullivan here<\/a>, and will thus just go with his pull-quote as a demonstration.):<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure the comments section will fill with various conspiracy theories over Indonesian school records, Kenyan births, and so on.\u00c2\u00a0 None of it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d absolutely none \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has any real, solid evidence showing that Obama was born anywhere else than Hawaii apart from sheer speculation and hearsay, and even less evidence that Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stepfather renounced Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthright citizenship, which he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the power to do anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a conspiracy theory spun by conspiracy theorists (Philip Berg is a 9\/11 truther) who use their normal thresholds of evidence for this meme.<\/em><\/p>\n

AND… this<\/a>, where you see Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California moving from an unequivocal stand on non-torture standards for interrogating detainees to a position loaded with equivocation and weasel words.<\/p>\n

The “birth certificate” business is irresponsible and detrimental to a conservative cause.\u00c2\u00a0 We arrive at such a point, where it persists and becomes currency enough to inandate comments of Republican bloggers,\u00c2\u00a0due to current desperation.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, as one moves from the role of critic to the role of governing — some well-held positions become fungibleitems in which politicians end up moving to the establishment position of the administration due to them being on\u00c2\u00a0“their team”.\u00c2\u00a0 That is what is lost,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0even as some conspiratorial obsessions fade from the mind of liberals.<\/p>\n

Well, that birth certificate story\u00c2\u00a0ends today<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Right?\u00c2\u00a0 Or can Alan Keyes flog it right up to the next Senate race in Illinois?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a bit of a symmetry\u00c2\u00a0between this\u00c2\u00a0(which I picked up via Andrew Sullivan here, and will thus just go with his pull-quote as a demonstration.): I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure the comments section will fill with various conspiracy theories over Indonesian school records, Kenyan births, and so on.\u00c2\u00a0 None of it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d absolutely none \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has any real, […]<\/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-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}