{"id":6599,"date":"2004-08-13T12:26:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/13\/moderation-in-all-things.html"},"modified":"2004-08-13T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T19:26:15","slug":"moderation_in_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/moderation_in_a.html","title":{"rendered":"Moderation in all things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t decided that I agree with the candidate conclusions of “Republicans for Kerry<\/a>” in this race, but if I saw a candidate whom I actually thought was firmly dedicated<\/em> to the principles outlined here<\/a> (with which I agree about 95%), they would indeed have my financial, rhetorical, and electoral support for this November.<\/p>\n

No, I don’t want to talk about it.<\/p>\n

(via Stan)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t decided that I agree with the candidate conclusions of “Republicans for Kerry” in this race, but if I saw a candidate whom I actually thought was firmly dedicated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-6599","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":5520,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/27\/debate_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":6599,"position":0},"title":"Debate","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Feb-04 8:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"I watched my first Democratic Debate this season last night. 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