{"id":152,"date":"2004-06-18T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T12:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=152"},"modified":"2004-06-18T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T12:01:31","slug":"badnarik-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Badnarik for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, this November, I&#8217;m voting for Michael Badnarik, the programmer\/technical trainer\/constitutional scholar who is running as the Libertarian party&#8217;s candidate for President.<br \/>\nWith two exceptions, I&#8217;m in complete accord with Michael&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnewss.com\/story\/0,2933,122161,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">positions<\/a> on the major issues of the campaign.  Of the two exceptions &#8211; free trade and censorship &#8211; I&#8217;m only in partial disagreement. So long as greed and evil exist, I think some government control of industry is necessary, and I don&#8217;t think porn should be protected by the First Amendment.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s important that Bush be fired this November, no question, but it&#8217;s also important that the Libertarian message continues to be included in political discourse, at both the national and state\/local levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, this November, I&#8217;m voting for Michael Badnarik, the programmer\/technical trainer\/constitutional scholar who is running as the Libertarian party&#8217;s candidate for President. With two exceptions, I&#8217;m in complete accord with Michael&#8217;s positions on the major issues of the campaign. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=152\">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-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}