{"id":3286,"date":"2009-01-06T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/01\/06\/alternate-universe-president-kerry-and-his-discontents\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:29:44","slug":"alternate-universe-president-kerry-and-his-discontents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/01\/06\/alternate-universe-president-kerry-and-his-discontents\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Universe President Kerry and his discontents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to take some stock of where things are with Alternate Universe American President John Kerry.\u00c2\u00a0 His promised increase of American troop levels in Iraq was always ironic &#8212; in that it was a war position being accepted by the anti-war part of the electorate.\u00c2\u00a0 I could never\u00c2\u00a0guage if it was the best option or not.\u00c2\u00a0 I did hear serious or quasi-serious figures state they believe Kerry will use political cover of a generally growing anti-war public to just vamoose, the technicalities of his promise not redoubted.\u00c2\u00a0 But, no, this Kerry Surge happened as said, started right when Kerry took office just about\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; the question of whether it&#8217;s given political space\u00c2\u00a0where the\u00c2\u00a0the rival factions have settled their troubles remains unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>So, with an economy that has gone in the tank, Alternate President John Kerry won an unspectacular election, more or less by default &#8212; Republican candidate Mitt Romney proved tone deaf on the economic woes of the nation and a third party splinter from Ron Paul grabbed the 6 percent of the vote that allowed Kerry&#8217;s 48 percent to win the day&#8211; and streams into a Republican\u00c2\u00a0congressed helmed by a 59 Republican Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, this is some sort of a booby prize.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing to see is how this whole sex scandal\u00c2\u00a0concerning Alternate Universe Vice-President John Edwards is going to play itself out.\u00c2\u00a0 It now looks as though his denials of the allegations that he had an affair &#8212; and on his Cancer &#8211; strickened wife at that! &#8212; and I wonder if Kerry may just dump him now &#8212; he&#8217;s a president already struggling to get political support from anywhere &#8212; the talk is that he should just be dumped now and be done with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to take some stock of where things are with Alternate Universe American President John Kerry.\u00c2\u00a0 His promised increase of American troop levels in Iraq was always ironic &#8212; in that it was a war position being accepted by the anti-war part of the electorate.\u00c2\u00a0 I could never\u00c2\u00a0guage if it was the best option [&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-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}