{"id":783,"date":"2008-10-15T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2008-10-27T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:33:46","slug":"election-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/election-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m suffering from Election Burnout&#8230; I can honestly say I&#8217;m not interested in hearing another word from the candidates nor I&#8217;m not interested in writing another word about the election.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign has been going on in one form or another for nearly two years now&#8230; My mind is made up all I want to do now is cast my vote. I won&#8217;t tell you who I&#8217;m voting for but I can tell it won&#8217;t be Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of a better explanation of why than this exchange:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wNuqV7N_bj0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it\u2019s good for everybody.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh??? What??? I don&#8217;t care you how you try to spin it there is no difference between what Barack Obama said to <a href=\"http:\/\/familysecuritymatters.org\/publications\/id.1465\/pub_detail.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Wurzelbacher<\/a> and the Socialist mantra of Karl Marx&#8230; From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.<\/p>\n<p>Socialism is socialism no matter how much lipstick you try to put on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m suffering from Election Burnout&#8230; I can honestly say I&#8217;m not interested in hearing another word from the candidates nor I&#8217;m not interested in writing another word about the election. This campaign has been going on in one form or another for nearly two years now&#8230; My mind is made up all I want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[47,57],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-2008-elections","tag-barack-obama","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":407,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/are-american-voters-susceptible-to-blackmail\/","url_meta":{"origin":783,"position":0},"title":"Are American Voters Susceptible To Blackmail?","author":"Jeff","date":"September 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Daniel Johnson, the editor of Standpoint has an interesting Op-Ed in today's New York Sun: LONDON \u2014 Are American voters susceptible to blackmail? 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From SunSentinal.com: Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga said Sunday no date has been set\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Money &amp; Investing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Money &amp; Investing","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/money-and-investing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":273,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/revisiting-zell-miller\/","url_meta":{"origin":783,"position":3},"title":"Revisiting Zell Miller","author":"Jeff","date":"September 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Hat Tip: Grim @ Blackfive. Zell Miller much like Joe Lieberman places his love of country ahead of party politics. His speech at the Republican Convention in 2004 was one of the greatest political speeches I've ever heard. We are faced with no less an important choice this election so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":664,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/finally-mccain-blasts-obama-democrats-for-fanniefreddie-meltdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":783,"position":4},"title":"Finally: McCain Blasts Obama, Democrats for Fannie\/Freddie Meltdown","author":"Jeff","date":"October 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: Scroll down for the video. It looks like the gloves are really off, John McCain is going to finally start talking about the economy and going after Barack Obama and Democrats for their roll in the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Our current economic crisis is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2923,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/election-day-2009-results-and-analysis\/","url_meta":{"origin":783,"position":5},"title":"Election Day 2009: Results and Analysis","author":"Jeff","date":"November 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Whew what a night... I was up until about 1:00 a.m. this morning tracking results and scribbling down various thoughts on yesterday's elections. 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