{"id":470,"date":"2006-09-05T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T14:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/05\/and-another-thing-4\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T02:55:50","slug":"and-another-thing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/05\/and-another-thing-4\/","title":{"rendered":"and another thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">In following up the last post, it&#8217;s a trap for the Democratic Candidates to position themselves on the other side of the Bush argument. The correct thing to do is dissect the Administration&#8217;s arguments, to analyze them in depth for what is reasonable, and what is crazy. Our government is <em><strong>deeply paranoid<\/strong><\/em> right now. One never confronts the data with paranoid people, the observations are usually fairly clear minded. One confronts their conclusions, and the logic by which they reach them. A sensible strategy is to expose their paranoia and its impact on our basic governmental principles &#8211; over and over and over.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So, of course we need NSA surveillance, but <u>not without judicial review<\/u>. Of course countries like Iraq, Iran, and North Korea are rogue nations that bear close scrutiny, but <u>not war, not &quot;The Bush Doctrine.&quot;<\/u> Of course we need a strong Executive, strong leaders, but <u>not at the expense of our Legislative bodies<\/u>. It&#8217;s their <strong>conclusions<\/strong> that are the problem, not the <strong>threat<\/strong> they use to reach them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In following up the last post, it&#8217;s a trap for the Democratic Candidates to position themselves on the other side of the Bush argument. The correct thing to do is dissect the Administration&#8217;s arguments, to analyze them in depth for what is reasonable, and what is crazy. Our government is deeply paranoid right now. One [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}