{"id":660,"date":"2004-02-04T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2018-08-10T07:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:35:22","slug":"660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/04\/660\/","title":{"rendered":"All Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I went into the polling place with every intention <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/04\/661\/\" target=\"_new\">to vote for LaRouche<\/a>, it rankled.  I was throwing away the right I had to determine the fate of the nation, or perhaps the direction of the nation, <b>to a joke<\/b>, a private joke that only me or Jim or Mike (the only possible owner for an extant remaining copy of <i>The Further Adventures of Tyrone Jackson<\/i>) would get, and I don&#8217;t even talk to them any more.<\/p>\n<p>Around the world, people don&#8217;t have the opportunity to select their own leaders.  <i>Selected not elected, RIH you gamers.<\/i>  Here, when presented with <i>my duty<\/i> to myself and my countrymen, I made a selection almost arbitrarily.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, were I to vote my conscience in this Democrat primary, it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered.  Joe Liberalman might have been the best of a bad lot, although I have to admit I have no idea who Fern Penna is or what Fern Penna might do for our country.  I only had the ballot because Missouri&#8217;s an open primary.  I&#8217;m voting Bush in the November election regardless.  &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I went into the polling place with every intention to vote for LaRouche, it rankled. I was throwing away the right I had to determine the fate of the nation, or perhaps the direction of the nation, to a joke, a private joke that only me or Jim or Mike (the only possible owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22589,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/22589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}