{"id":464,"date":"2006-09-04T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/04\/blowin-in-the-wind\/"},"modified":"2006-09-04T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T15:16:26","slug":"blowin-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/04\/blowin-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"the answer is blowin’ in the wind…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s a Huffington Post<\/strong><\/font> article "outing" Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove’s father by James Moore, The Closets of Karl and Ken<\/a><\/strong>. I have ambivalent feelings about the article. On the one hand, why would Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman participate or even author this monsterous anti-homosexual policy of the Republicans and the Religious Right? On the other hand, is James Moore playing their game by "outing" them in this article? For that matter, am I playing the game by writing about it? Have we regressed to "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" as well.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I can’t answer those questions myself. What I can do is say what I think. This is another example of what has been terribly wrong, criminally wrong, with this Administration. What they say is totally designed to sway public opinion<\/strong>. We have no idea what they really believe. Many of us think that the course of our country is being steered by a bunch of fanatics in the Conservative Think Tanks through willing operatives like Dick Cheney and John Bolton.  We suspect that Bush and Rove are the PR arm of someone else’s policies, not that they have any of their own. It’s just not their job.<\/p>\n

So, given their previous duplicity, it’s no surprise that the Chairman of the Republican Party and Bush’s number one strategist would hold this part of their story close to their chest. No surprise at all… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a Huffington Post article "outing" Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove’s father by James Moore, The Closets of Karl and Ken. I have ambivalent feelings about the article. On the one hand, why would Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman participate or even author this monsterous anti-homosexual policy of the Republicans and the Religious Right? On […]<\/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-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}