{"id":2190,"date":"2008-08-02T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2008-08-02T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:37:17","slug":"dailykos-and-the-magic-8-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"DailyKos and the Magic 8-Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/8\/1\/16581\/04454\/520\/560874\">bit of prophesy <\/a>over at the Kos Kids today.  It struck me as more insightful than the usual cannabis-induced, immature rant that one usually finds over there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A choice between a milquetoast successor to a disgraced imperial president and a man running on hope and a smile, an economy reeling from the shock of rising oil prices, stark choices on a growing budget deficit, a military in transition after years of adventurism abroad, and a new Democratic majority in Congress still dealing with the abuses of the previous administration. Devilstower says we&#8217;ve seen 2008 before &#8212; in 1976.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The early comparisons between McCain and Ford are silly but not as silly as those between Bush and Nixon.  But that\u2019s not what struck me.<\/p>\n<p>This ass-clown is comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter as if it\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t disagree that Obama would be a very similar president but can any serious student of history possibly think that is a good thing?<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t this like Republicans hoping that John McCain will be the next Herbert Hoover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this bit of prophesy over at the Kos Kids today. It struck me as &hellip; <a title=\"DailyKos and the Magic 8-Ball\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2190\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DailyKos and the Magic 8-Ball<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}