{"id":4408,"date":"2008-05-09T00:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/09\/electoral-politics-friday-obama-or-his-preacher\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T07:54:39","slug":"electoral-politics-friday-obama-or-his-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4408","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Politics Friday: Obama or his Preacher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I find the American political process completely mystifying.  At this stage it seems apparent that you guys have reached the baroque stage of elections &#8211; a complicated, expensive edifice that references nothing but itself. ((unless I&#8217;ve got what baroque means wrong, in which case it&#8217;s something else)) Both the Democrat candidates would probably be on the right of the National party (our right wing). I read blogs of people who seem to see similar problems with the world than I do, even if they generally have less radical solutions, and I don&#8217;t understand the way they view this electoral process.  So I&#8217;m going to ask a question of liberal\/left-wing\/progressive commentators, because I really want to know.<\/p>\n<p>Who has said more that you agree with and less you disagree with Obama or Reverend Wright?<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; the other thing I&#8217;ve been wondering is for Americans who are anti-war which is the more pertient question:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s Obama doing meeting with Bill Ayers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s Bill Ayers doing meeting with Obama&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I find the American political process completely mystifying. At this stage it seems apparent that you guys have reached the baroque stage of elections &#8211; a complicated, expensive edifice that references nothing but itself. ((unless I&#8217;ve got what baroque &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}