{"id":1065,"date":"2008-08-25T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2008-08-25T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T21:47:32","slug":"looking-better-and-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Looking Better and Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Blog-o-Sphere cranks up the arguments pro and con, I find myself less favorable  to John McCain.  Supporting NObama is, of course, out of the question.<br \/>\nI contributed to the Clinton campaign and was generally pleased with her transformation from self-conscious, stolid wonk to empathetic, gracious and passionate advocate for those who were not &#8220;born lucky&#8221;, to paraphrase Governor Zell Miller before he lost it and became a Republican.<br \/>\nObviously, I was not impressed with the way Obama and his cohorts (Wright, Pfleger and the boys at MSNBC) acted toward Clinton and her supporters.  Many women have been called a lot worse than the &#8220;N&#8221; word, and it seemed that the Obama campaign legitimized and even institutionalized this misogyny.<br \/>\nIf the old John McCain were to miraculously reappear, I&#8217;d vote for him in a heartbeat.  As it is, Ron Paul, Bob Barr and even Ralph Nadar are looking better and better every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Blog-o-Sphere cranks up the arguments pro and con, I find myself less favorable to John McCain. Supporting NObama is, of course, out of the question. I contributed to the Clinton campaign and was generally pleased with her transformation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1065\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}