{"id":9024,"date":"2011-09-20T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:05:51","slug":"2008-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/09\/20\/2008-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this is unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went into the polls voting for the black guy, and what I got was the white guy.&#8221;<br \/>\nBill Maher, then quoted by Michael Moore.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s&#8230; interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/09\/limbaugh-michael-moore-bill-maher-convergence\">You can chalk it up alongside Limbaugh<\/a>, but set aside in ironic quotation marks.\u00c2\u00a0 And in this vault of commentary, I slide next to Ta Nesha Coates with the &#8220;He is within the range of what I thought he was going to be when he became President&#8221; &#8212; I am &#8220;not as low on Obama&#8221; because I was never &#8220;as high on Obama&#8221; and &#8212; a man named Michael Moore once upon a time would have known that &#8212; back in the Clinton Administration.<\/p>\n<p>And about Moore &#8212; he&#8217;s the guy who got suckered into supporting Wesley Clarke in the 2004 Democratic Primary, a man whose only policy record was with some military actions, all of which Michael Moore had opposed, through the 1990s.\u00c2\u00a0 So we jump from that to Obama (and I think Moore once upon a time knew that his political problem was bigger than Obama.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this is unfortunate. &#8220;I went into the polls voting for the black guy, and what I got was the white guy.&#8221; Bill Maher, then quoted by Michael Moore. It&#8217;s&#8230; interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 You can chalk it up alongside Limbaugh, but set aside in ironic quotation marks.\u00c2\u00a0 And in this vault of commentary, I slide next to [&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-9024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024","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=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9025,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}