{"id":519,"date":"2008-08-26T21:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T01:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=519"},"modified":"2008-08-26T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T01:06:48","slug":"sanity-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Sanity Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sanity check by both parties in the US is desperately needed. Look, I have no love lost for Mr Obama. I think as a President, if elected he will turn out to marginally worse than Jimmy Carter&#8217;s 4 year term. He&#8217;ll push for a number of programs, continue centralizing healthcare and attempting as much as he might in expanding various entitlements programs a number of fronts. McCain similarly will push for (and against a likely Democratically controlled Congress get somewhat less of what he desires) a different set of programs. But, no Mr Coates is <a href=\"http:\/\/ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/the_split.php\" target=\"_blank\">completely loony <\/a>when he offers that a McCain Presidency is to be equivalent to &#8220;sell the freedom of their daughters &#8230;&#8221; or that for the poor, a McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishatheist.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/human-toll-of-republicanism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Presidency implies<\/a> &#8230; &#8220;the outcome will be sickness and death and homelessness and, for those cut off from health coverage and help &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look, Presidents have a lot less domestic influence than we pretend. Mr Bush has been in the office for 8 years and gosh, our daughters aren&#8217;t slaves and the lot of the poor is not that appreciably different than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>But over the top rhetoric and outright demonization of the other side is just unhelpful all around.<\/p>\n<p>Try some sanity on for size. It might help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sanity check by both parties in the US is desperately needed. Look, I have no love lost for Mr Obama. I think as a President, if elected he will turn out to marginally worse than Jimmy Carter&#8217;s 4 year term. He&#8217;ll push for a number of programs, continue centralizing healthcare and attempting as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,58,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-government","category-marko","category-politics","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}