{"id":41516,"date":"2010-06-22T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=41516"},"modified":"2010-06-22T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:58:48","slug":"i-want-a-democrat-to-rule-over-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=41516","title":{"rendered":"I Want a democrat To Rule Over Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peekinthewell.net\/blog\/i-want-a-democrat-to-rule-over-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freeberg<\/a> cuts to the chase.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look how democrats run their own party. When there\u2019s a position  available, and there\u2019s a person available to be appointed to it, <em>all<\/em> they seem to care about is whether he\u2019ll be effective in that position.  Nothing else matters. They want to win. If you\u2019re available, and your  skin color would inject some much-desired \u201cdiversity\u201d into the ranks  that\u2019s missing now but you\u2019re likely to fuck it up, then out you go.  White, black, red, yellow, green, purple, gay, straight, male, female \u2014  if he can do the job, then what the hell, hire him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It is quite alright, when a democrat runs up against some enemy of  the democrats, to allow his passions to run unchecked and wild. They  feel no shame about the fantasies they have about making that enemy  sorry his parents ever met. It is commonplace that a democrat waxes  lyrically about the day he\u2019ll be able to waterboard Sean Hannity, and  all of a sudden waterboarding isn\u2019t quite so bad. I\u2019d like to see my  country defended with that kind of passion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeberg cuts to the chase. Look how democrats run their own party. When there\u2019s a position available, and there\u2019s a person available to be appointed to it, all they seem to care about is whether he\u2019ll be effective in that position. Nothing else matters. They want to win. If you\u2019re available, and your skin color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41518,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions\/41518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}