{"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? 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