{"id":181795,"date":"2016-03-15T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/15\/the-term-for-this-is-unforced-political-error\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:57:00","slug":"the-term-for-this-is-unforced-political-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/15\/the-term-for-this-is-unforced-political-error\/","title":{"rendered":"The Term for this is Unforced Political Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that one needs to have a sense of decorum at a funeral.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a place where one should prosecute political differences.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, when you are in a primary contest, and among the complaints against you is that you are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mindlessly bellicose and willing to engage in regime change for its own sake.<\/li>\n<li>A member of a corrupt and incompetent ruling elite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This picture from Nancy Reagan&#8217;s funeral is a disaster, showing her palling around with Shrub, is a complete clusterf%$#,  as the ensuing Twitter sh%$ storm shows:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This may be the best photo from Mrs. Reagan&#8217;s funeral. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kX1WZP9mwi\">pic.twitter.com\/kX1WZP9mwi<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 David Chalian (@DavidChalian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidChalian\/status\/709200276226449408\">March 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fail is strong in this one.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/03\/200pm-water-cooler-31142016.html\">naked capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that one needs to have a sense of decorum at a funeral. It is not a place where one should prosecute political differences. That being said, when you are in a primary contest, and among the complaints against you is that you are: Mindlessly bellicose and willing to engage in regime change for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,987,1182,965,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-fail","category-george-w-bush","category-hillary-clinton","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}