{"id":1918,"date":"2008-03-15T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/15\/ranting-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:45:36","slug":"ranting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/15\/ranting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ranting…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I sort of shut down the blog for a while because the front burner issue was the Democratic Primaries, and it felt to me like that’s a private matter. I’m not a registered Democrat, though I certainly mostly vote for Democrats. In my mind, both Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton are honest, right-thinking people. I’d gladly vote for either in  November. I made my choice between them in the primary vote based on something of a gut feel and their Congressional voting records. If I knew that the Iraq War was a terrible mistake, I reasoned our next President should’ve seen that too. But, I wouldn’t push that logic on anyone else. No person’s character can be measured by one vote. I guess you would call my vote something like a "preference."<\/div>\n

But one of the blogs I liked, No Quarter<\/strong><\/a>, has taken a different tack. The blog is headed by Larry Johnson, an ex-C.I.A. agent and friend of Valerie Plame. I liked the blog because he’s well informed and cuts straight to the center of things. Over the last several months, I’ve been amazed at how the blog has gone from what I thought it was to a hate Obama diatribe. Once it got on that course, it rapidly changed from editorial to something else. I almost can’t read it now. He’s onto Obama’s preacher now, and the tone of the blog is that Obama is a black racist – something I really doubt. Johnson and friends sound like a pro-Hillary anti-Obama version of Rush Limbaugh – filtering the news to find creative ways to trash Obama.<\/p>\n

I suppose that such a stand would be heroic, if it were based on facts – but it’s not apparent that it is. It’s an opinion and it strikes me as way over the top. It’s a shame. His previous informed commentary has deteriorated into rants. I sometimes wonder as I read it if I sound that way about Bush and Cheney. I certainly feel like they are extremely destructive, dishonest people. But I don’t filter the news. Actually, I don’t have to. They provide enough material daily for a sea of bloggers.<\/p>\n

I wish Larry would take a vacation and reconsider his current trajectory. A lot of us miss him… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sort of shut down the blog for a while because the front burner issue was the Democratic Primaries, and it felt to me like that’s a private matter. I’m not a registered Democrat, though I certainly mostly vote for Democrats. In my mind, both Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton are honest, right-thinking people. I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}