{"id":4021,"date":"2009-05-23T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2009-05-23T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T19:50:05","slug":"a-thought-about-the-daisy-ad-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/05\/23\/a-thought-about-the-daisy-ad-remix\/","title":{"rendered":"a thought about the daisy ad remix"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thought about the RNC remix of the old Lyndon Johnson “Daisy Ad”<\/a> — other than the sight of Jim Webb and Harry Reid’s succumbing to the easy Demagougery of the Terrorists in the United States, which I could have made earlier this week —<\/p>\n

We hear Lyndon Johnson’s words “These Are the Stakes” as the nuclear bomb is blasted. But the RNC left out his finishing words<\/a> — “We must either Love each other, or we must Die”, which — granted has the “we must die” as an option, but at least that is balanced with the alternative of “Love each other”. The RNC doesn’t provide that option in their ad. I don’t know what the stakes are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thought about the RNC remix of the old Lyndon Johnson “Daisy Ad” — other than the sight of Jim Webb and Harry Reid’s succumbing to the easy Demagougery of the Terrorists in the United States, which I could have made earlier this week — We hear Lyndon Johnson’s words “These Are the Stakes” as […]<\/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-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}