{"id":1068,"date":"2008-08-30T07:41:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2008-08-30T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T12:41:43","slug":"heart-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anorexic Barack Obama, aging Joe Biden and permanently disabled John McCain have presented a depressing spectacle this campaign season.<br \/>\nI hadn&#8217;t realized this until seeing Governor Sarah Palin yesterday.<br \/>\nThis healthy, fit, outdoors-loving, apple-cheeked woman looks to be the only person in the race who has the physical good health and emotional stability to actually serve as Commander In Chief.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe Democratic boys have built their campaign around victimization and &#8220;It isn&#8217;t faaiirrr&#8221; complaints, whether it&#8217;s being called the &#8220;N&#8221; word or losing your job to overseas.<br \/>\nPalin by contrast has a competitive athlete&#8217;s view, that when you&#8217;re in a race, you expect your opponent to want to win as much as you do, and sometimes that means you have to pick yourself up after getting hurt.<br \/>\nWhat a refreshing change.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m unsettled by Obama&#8217;s failure to nominate a woman as running mate because I can&#8217;t help but think it&#8217;s evidence of some unresolved issues around being abandoned by his mother.<br \/>\nI submit that no one just walks away from that kind of trauma.<br \/>\nThis came into focus for me when I heard Michelle Obama talk about their first date.  Rather than dinner and a movie, Barack brought her to a community meeting of some sort so that she could watch him strut his stuff.  She said she fell in love with him then and there.<br \/>\nRather than trying to impress his future wife with thoughtfulness and generosity to her, it sounds like Barack put her through a litmus test to see if she could give him the adoration and hero-worship he evidently needs, as much as water and oxygen.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want that in a President, and the contrast to the patriotism and self-discipline of a John McCain and the selflessness of a Sarah Palin, who not only took on the Republican establishment in her state but elected to raise a disabled child, is stark, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anorexic Barack Obama, aging Joe Biden and permanently disabled John McCain have presented a depressing spectacle this campaign season. I hadn&#8217;t realized this until seeing Governor Sarah Palin yesterday. This healthy, fit, outdoors-loving, apple-cheeked woman looks to be the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1068\">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-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}