{"id":1715,"date":"2003-09-25T00:32:04","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T07:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/09\/i-learned-something-tonight\/"},"modified":"2003-09-25T00:32:04","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T07:32:04","slug":"i-learned-something-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/25\/i-learned-something-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"I learned something tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWatching the California recall debate<\/a> tonight, I learned some things about the candidates:<\/p>\n

1. Bustamante is a sleaze who’ll say or do anything to get elected.<\/p>\n

2. Tom McClintock would make a great governor for Nevada.<\/p>\n

3. Arianna’s ambition in life is to be Howard Dean’s running mate. <\/p>\n

4. Arnie is the second coming of Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n

Dean really should give Arianna a call – she’s the only person in American politics with the potential to make him look almost sane, and she needs a mate so bad a running one will do.<\/p>\n

The format was fine, by the way.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching the California recall debate tonight, I learned some things about the candidates: 1. Bustamante is a sleaze who’ll say or do anything to get elected. 2. Tom McClintock would make a great governor for Nevada. 3. Arianna’s ambition in life is to be Howard Dean’s running mate. 4. Arnie is the second coming of … Continue reading “I learned something tonight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-rF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}