{"id":370,"date":"2006-01-24T08:59:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=370"},"modified":"2006-01-24T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T15:59:35","slug":"political-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/01\/24\/political-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Political cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004018\"><\/a>I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find something George McGovern said during the closing days of his 1972 presidential campaign.  It was about a president who only makes speeches in front of military personal and avoids all confrontation.  There don&#8217;t appear to be any McGovern campaign speeches online, save his acceptance speech in a few places and his announcement speech in one spot.  I should probably check this out against Barry Goldwater, who he is forever linked with as the landslide loser who lost to a president who went down in disgrace, but in Goldwater&#8217;s case we have a better&#8230; panache toward electoral victory.<\/p>\n<p>Not finding that, I guess I&#8217;ll content myself with some editorial cartoons from today&#8217;s newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/tammanycorruption.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/23\/ethicsreform.tm\/\">As though torn from today&#8217;s headlines!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boondocksnet.com\/gallery\/nast71.html\">Yes!<\/a>  Those Diebold machines are uncertain items.  Did you hear that quote about &#8220;I will deliver Ohio to Bush&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Okay.  I have no other purpose but to say than that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/2006\/2006_01_30\/cover.html\">we do not live in interesting times.<\/a>  I&#8217;ll scour the Teddy Roosevelt cartoons and see if I can see one carping on his usurption of presidential powers.  Then we can pretend that Bush II is Teddy Roosevelt.  Just as we can pretend that Abramoff is Tammany.<\/p>\n<p>And the Railroads that owned the Republican party in the last two decades of the 19th century are&#8230; um&#8230; Halliburton maybe?  I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find something George McGovern said during the closing days of his 1972 presidential campaign. It was about a president who only makes speeches in front of military personal and avoids all confrontation. There don&#8217;t appear to be any McGovern campaign speeches online, save his acceptance speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}