{"id":29932,"date":"2012-08-23T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/things-the-democrats-ran-on-in-2008.html"},"modified":"2012-08-23T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:36:09","slug":"things-the-democrats-ran-on-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/things-the-democrats-ran-on-in-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Things the Democrats ran on in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little things lilke habeus corpus<\/i> and closing Gitmo and\u00a0warrantless\u00a0wiretapping and the like.<\/p>\n

"It's hard to remember now, but Democrats really did used to talk about that stuff a lot."<\/i><\/p>\n

Some of us still do. \u00a0And we wish that if our own candidate weren't so much of a problem, there'd be any hint or indication that his main competitor would do better in this arena. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But there's not. Which makes this a sad choice indeed.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLook at All the Civil Liberties Democrats Pretended to Care About in 2008 – Hit & Run : Reason.com<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSince the GOP's 2012 party platform is (understandably) in the news this week, I thought it might be helpful to remind voters what the Democrats were\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little things lilke habeus corpus and closing Gitmo and\u00a0warrantless\u00a0wiretapping and the like. "It's hard to remember now, but Democrats really did used to talk about that stuff a lot." Some of us still do. \u00a0And we wish that if our own candidate weren't so much of a problem, there'd be any hint or indication that … Continue reading “Things the Democrats ran on in 2008”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129774,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/the-only-thing-democrats-agree-on.html","url_meta":{"origin":29932,"position":0},"title":"The only thing Democrats agree on","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Feb-16 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because I actually read stuff from people saying this (or at least the Panels 2-3 this). 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