{"id":6221,"date":"2004-10-06T23:26:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T06:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/06\/i-know-this-is-getting-repetitive-but.html"},"modified":"2004-10-06T23:26:36","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T06:26:36","slug":"i_know_this_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/06\/i_know_this_is.html","title":{"rendered":"I know this is getting repetitive, but …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really getting tired of this presidential election. Really, truly. To the point where any time someone mentions Bush’s latest blunder, or Kerry’s latest flipflop, or Bush’s latest doofusity, or Kerry’s latest pomposity, it’s like someone driving a red-hot icepick through my eyeball and into my brain. It’s a time when I wish I could just turn off my critical reasoning abilities and be a gung-ho supporter of someone<\/em>. Or a rabid opponent of someone<\/em>. Because being an ever-amazed reluctant supporter of one somewhat more important policy aspect of one candidate vs. an irritated disdainer of the other candidate even though on paper more of an ideological match to him, is getting even older to me than it doubtless is to you.<\/p>\n

To wit, I am not <\/em>a fan of George Bush. I happen to think he was right in his foreign policy (if not execution) in Afghanistan and Iraq, more so than that of John Kerry (to the extent that it can be coherently stated), and that in turn weighs marginally more than my disdain for much else of Bush’s (domestic) policy, which is in turn marginally greater (disdain-wise) than my not-insignificant disdain for Kerry’s domestic posturing<\/s> policy, which in turn is greater than my desire to see Bush voted out of office so that the incessant clamor of his opponents could be stilled, or at least muted.<\/p>\n

And don’t get me started on Ralph Nader.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll just try to focus on local\/state election news from here on out. Sh’yeah. That’ll lower my blood pressure. Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really getting tired of this presidential election. Really, truly. To the point where any time someone mentions Bush’s latest blunder, or Kerry’s latest flipflop, or Bush’s latest doofusity, or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5279,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/fact_check.html","url_meta":{"origin":6221,"position":0},"title":"Fact Check","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Apr-04 2:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I once again heartily endorse FactCheck.org, which fact-checks campaign commercials and initiatives from both the Dems and GOP, neither of which comes out looking very good. 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