{"id":195031,"date":"2008-08-01T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/01\/bloody-fool\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T01:07:00","slug":"bloody-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/01\/bloody-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/08\/01\/obama_opens_the_door_to_offsho.html\">Obama Opens the Door to Offshore Drilling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You and your campaign just allowed yourself to be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bitch slapped, again<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Let remind my readers of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/148765.php\">Bitch Slap Theory of Republican Politics<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>One way &#8212; perhaps the best way &#8212; to demonstrate someone&#8217;s lack of toughness or strength is to attack them and show they are either unwilling or unable to defend themselves &#8212; thus the rough slang I used above. And that I think is a big part of what is happening here. Someone who can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t defend themselves certainly isn&#8217;t someone you can depend upon to defend you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You just caved to a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tremendously stupid idea<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It does not make you strong, it makes you look weak.<\/p>\n<p>You and the Democrats <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">lose<\/span>, and McCain and the Republicans <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">win<\/span>.  It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Opens the Door to Offshore Drilling You and your campaign just allowed yourself to be bitch slapped, again. Let remind my readers of the &#8220;Bitch Slap Theory of Republican Politics&#8220;: One way &#8212; perhaps the best way &#8212; to demonstrate someone&#8217;s lack of toughness or strength is to attack them and show they are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195031"}],"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=195031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}