{"id":606,"date":"2003-07-05T16:46:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-05T11:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/606"},"modified":"2003-07-05T16:46:50","modified_gmt":"2003-07-05T11:46:50","slug":"political-blather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/606","title":{"rendered":"Political blather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting.  Following a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavness.org\/cogicophony\">Cogicophony<\/a>, I took the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectsmart.com\/PRESIDENT\">Presidential candidate selection quiz<\/a> to see who my perfect candidate is.  Short answer?  I don&#8217;t have one.  If there were a <i>true<\/i> Libertarian candidate out there, that&#8217;s who I would agree most closely with &#8211; on the par of 100% agreement.  Here are my top ten:<\/p>\n<p><i>1.?Libertarian Candidate ??(100%)<br \/>\n2.?Buchanan, Patrick J. ? Reform\/Republican ??(64%)<br \/>\n3.?Dean, Gov. Howard, VT &#8211; Democrat ??(56%)<br \/>\n4.?Bush, George W. &#8211;  US President ??(53%)?<br \/>\n5.?Phillips, Howard &#8211; Constitution ??(53%)<br \/>\n6.?Edwards, Senator John, NC &#8211; Democrat ??(52%)<br \/>\n7.?Sharpton, Reverend Al &#8211; Democrat ??(46%)<br \/>\n8.?Biden, Senator Joe, DE &#8211; Democrat ??(43%)?<br \/>\n9.?Feingold, Senator Russ, WI &#8211; Democrat ??(41%)?<br \/>\n10.?Kerry, Senator John, MA &#8211; Democrat ??(41%)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No wonder I hate all politicians.  None of them agree with me.  Which of course means that none of them are reasonable.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Addlepated in 2004!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting. Following a link from Cogicophony, I took the Presidential candidate selection quiz to see who my perfect candidate is. Short answer? I don&#8217;t have one. If there were a true Libertarian candidate out there, that&#8217;s who I would agree most closely with &#8211; on the par of 100% agreement. Here are my top ten: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}