{"id":725,"date":"2006-09-26T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:12:13","slug":"that-obnoxious-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"That obnoxious thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, with six fleeting weeks to go in the campaign, I staged a little theatrical production of\u00c2\u00a0an imagined\u00c2\u00a0congressional candidate&#8217;s debate that I would love to be a part of.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m frozen out of the debates\u00c2\u00a0because\u00c2\u00a0the rules for third party candidates requires them to\u00c2\u00a0poll 5 or 10% of the vote. Its possible that if an independent third party conducted such a poll I might very well register 5 or 10%. However, so far no properly sanctioned third party, like a newspaper, has bother with a poll.<\/p>\n<p>So I wrote a little two part dialogue I imagined between the front runners. They&#8217;ve already called each other names. Oberstar has called Grams a liar and Grams\u00c2\u00a0has called\u00c2\u00a0Oberstar a &#8220;liberal elitest.&#8221; They both, especially Grams, have tried to out pro-life the other candidate and Grams tried to prove, apparently with faulty evidence, that Oberstar has not been visiting his District. I\u00c2\u00a0added some other things to the debate\u00c2\u00a0which I find objectionable\u00c2\u00a0like Jim&#8217;s porkbarrel and both\u00c2\u00a0Grams&#8217;s and Oberstar&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0spending proclivities.<\/p>\n<p>It was a loud snarling affair and my gagged face was supposed to be the punchline. One of my admirers, however, found the piece so unpleasant that he didn&#8217;t get to the punchline before turning it off. His better half who heard the caterwalling asked him what &#8220;that obnoxious thing&#8221; was.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had made my points with a little more finesse. Live and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, with six fleeting weeks to go in the campaign, I staged a little theatrical production of\u00c2\u00a0an imagined\u00c2\u00a0congressional candidate&#8217;s debate that I would love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,47,21,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}