{"id":1866,"date":"2004-03-18T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T20:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/03\/not-completely-insane\/"},"modified":"2004-03-18T13:52:40","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T20:52:40","slug":"not-completely-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/18\/not-completely-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Not completely insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tJust catching up a bit, I&#8217;d like to point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/001758.shtml\">Lessig&#8217;s candidate<\/a> Rohit Khanna made a <a title=\"CA Secretary of State - Primary Election- U.S. Congress District 12 - Districtwide\" href=\"http:\/\/vote2004.ss.ca.gov\/Returns\/usrep\/1200.htm\">spectacularly poor showing<\/a> in his attempt to unseat pro-Iraq-liberation incumbent Tom Lantos in San Mateo County (just south of Frisco.) Khanna touted his anti-liberation and anti-PATRIOT Act stances, and was beaten like a red-headed stepchild on election day. San Mateo County voters aren&#8217;t as shallow as they sometimes look.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein, Jean Kerry&#8217;s plea to Zapatero not to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq was very, very, smart &#8211; it allows Kerry to continue pretending to be serious about American defense while continuing to offer-up Zap as the one foreign leader (other than Osama) known to support Jean for the presidency. And yes, we prefer to spell Kerry&#8217;s name in the Original French.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just catching up a bit, I&#8217;d like to point out that Lessig&#8217;s candidate Rohit Khanna made a spectacularly poor showing in his attempt to unseat pro-Iraq-liberation incumbent Tom Lantos in San Mateo County (just south of Frisco.) Khanna touted his anti-liberation and anti-PATRIOT Act stances, and was beaten like a red-headed stepchild on election day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/18\/not-completely-insane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not completely insane&#8221;<\/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-1866","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-u6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}