{"id":159,"date":"2008-10-22T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-10-22T13:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T19:21:02","slug":"who-to-vote-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/who-to-vote-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Who to vote for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably my first non-religious post in a while, but I need a rant.<\/p>\n<p>My new slogan for the next two weeks is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vote_sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160\" title=\"vote_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/vote_sm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See, I see the bail out as the socialism of the financial sector and rewarding the CEOs and CFO of those institutions.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, as it was Congress&#8217; fault to begin with &#8211; they bail THEMSELVES out.\u00c2\u00a0 We all know that Congress is corrupt, Bush is just trying not to suck for the next 3 weeks, and we&#8217;re going to have to sell drugs to finance our retirements.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But, we still blindly follow the two-party system.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 We HAVE A CHOICE!!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick of it.\u00c2\u00a0 And we&#8217;re to blame -we continue to vote the &#8220;party line&#8221; and now, we&#8217;re against faced with the lesser of two evils for president.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #888888;\">ENOUGH!!!!<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>We have to change somewhere and I&#8217;m changing by voting for NEITHER party candidate this year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to research the Libertarian candidate, or most likely, write in Ron Paul &#8211; the only politician that made ANY sense this year.<\/p>\n<p>But, it only works if we all do it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So, in two weeks, I imagine my slogan will be &#8220;Don&#8217;t blame me &#8211; I voted for REAL CHANGE (by voting for neither).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably my first non-religious post in a while, but I need a rant. My new slogan for the next two weeks is: See, I see the bail out as the socialism of the financial sector and rewarding the CEOs and CFO of those institutions.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, as it was Congress&#8217; fault to begin with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/who-to-vote-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who to vote for?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eb30-2z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}