{"id":6712,"date":"2004-07-29T09:44:27","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/29\/bread-or-booze.html"},"modified":"2004-07-29T09:44:27","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T16:44:27","slug":"bread_or_booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/29\/bread_or_booze.html","title":{"rendered":"Bread or booze?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Musgrave provides a graphic example of how political incivility wasn’t invented in the last few years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Certainly not. Has it gotten worse? Has it moved from beyond attack dog functionaries to the candidates themselves? Or all we all pining for a golden age which never existed.<\/p>\n

No idea. But I’m not only tired of it this cycle, I’m tired of the conventions suddenly becoming open season to fight the tired battles from the previous <\/em>administrations. Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Musgrave provides a graphic example of how political incivility wasn’t invented in the last few years. Certainly not. Has it gotten worse? Has it moved from beyond attack dog…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-6712","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":5333,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/just_to_show.html","url_meta":{"origin":6712,"position":0},"title":"Just to show …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Apr-04 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"... that Colorado is not always at the foremost fringe on some political issues, the Musgrave Amendment, a US constitutional amendment banning gay marriage introduced by a Colorado Representative, is...","rel":"","context":"In "LGBTQ &c"","block_context":{"text":"LGBTQ &c","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gay-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9853,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/19\/the_ten_worst_congressfol.html","url_meta":{"origin":6712,"position":1},"title":"The Ten Worst Congressfolk","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Oct-06 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hmmm ... is it better to be Worst or Dumbest? 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