{"id":443,"date":"2008-02-07T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T02:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=443"},"modified":"2009-11-02T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T00:22:13","slug":"decision-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Decision 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-444\" title=\"decision2008\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/decision2008_455w-390x600.jpg\" alt=\"decision2008\" width=\"390\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/decision2008_455w-390x600.jpg 390w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/decision2008_455w-97x150.jpg 97w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/decision2008_455w-325x500.jpg 325w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/decision2008_455w.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><strong>So, I wake up early one morning recently; as usual, my wife&#8217;s already awake and has MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; babbling on the TV.<\/strong> In the thinning fog of my fading Rapid Eye Movement state I hear Barack Obama telling us how he plans to continue upholding the corporate\/military agenda, after which I can just make out some unhinged rightist nutcake denouncing John McCain for being too Liberal. A gaggle of pundits ranging from tepid centrist to shrieking fascist have a bitching, shouting argument over who&#8217;ll do the best job of bombing and torturing for the next four years. One pundit calls McCain a closet Liberal, another calls Obama a Socialist, and I think: jeezus, it&#8217;s too goddamn&#8217; early for this shit. It&#8217;s only 7am, and my brain is already hurting.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I realize that this has been going on for over a year and will continue until November, and I think, &#8220;oh, Jeezus, no. Please. Somebody, stop this goddamn&#8217; torture. Somebody make it stop. Somebody, anybody &#8212; <em>make&#8230;it&#8230;<strong>STOP&#8230;!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Decision 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/decision2008\/decision2008ltr72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>72dpi jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 212<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I wake up early one morning recently; as usual, my wife&#8217;s already awake and has MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; babbling on the TV. In the thinning fog of my fading Rapid Eye Movement state I hear Barack Obama telling us how he plans to continue upholding the corporate\/military agenda, after which I can just make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,5,10,132],"tags":[1452,155,156,145],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-elections","category-iraq","category-liberty","category-media","category-party-animals","tag-elections","tag-mccain","tag-msnbc","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}