{"id":644,"date":"2005-05-31T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T02:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=644"},"modified":"2005-05-31T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T02:32:31","slug":"on-political-stage-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/05\/31\/on-political-stage-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"On Political Stage-craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003474\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/democraticgovernors.org\/news\/102\/taste-of-america-2005\">Um&#8230; Barry<\/a>:  Wear a goddamned pair of dress pants.<\/p>\n<p>This is part stage-craft and image manipulation&#8230; To what degree it might be authentic, I do not know.  I suppose if he were to ever run for president, he won&#8217;t have the anti-&#8220;folksy&#8221; dribble going against him, as Al Gore did.  (A section of the chattering class, the pestering and annoying part, couldn&#8217;t help themselves when it was revealed that Al Gore &#8230; dressed up in some occassions, dressed down in other occassions, and had hired a consultant to help him.  Gasp!  Earth-tone Gore!  Alpha-Male!  Whatnot.)<\/p>\n<p>As for Barry&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/lotp\/2005\/04\/19\/montana_governor\/\">some more stupid posturing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;But were Montanans outraged at the same level as folks in New York City or in other vulnerable cities? Frankly, is al-Qaida coming to Montana? It would be a bad idea for them to come here. To start with, if they show up here and start making some trouble, somebody&#8217;s just going to shoot their asses and ask questions later.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>ooh&#8230; Mr. Macho Man, aren&#8217;t he?  This is pure claptrap, of course.  Nay&#8230; international terrorists don&#8217;t know Montana exists.  And, nay, I doubt firing rifles at the a Montana land-mark while terrorists are driving planes into it is going to solve anything.<\/p>\n<p>None of it is as revolting as Bush parading in front of toddlers to argure against stem-cell research, of course, but nonetheless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um&#8230; Barry: Wear a goddamned pair of dress pants. This is part stage-craft and image manipulation&#8230; To what degree it might be authentic, I do not know. I suppose if he were to ever run for president, he won&#8217;t have the anti-&#8220;folksy&#8221; dribble going against him, as Al Gore did. (A section of the chattering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}