{"id":1759,"date":"2008-06-05T23:43:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-06-05T23:45:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T23:45:25","slug":"yes_youre_excep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Yes, You’re Ex-Ceptional, too…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of free ice cream, but work has been leaving me feeling like Laocoon<\/a> this week…<\/p>\n

The big news is, obviously Obama. It’s on, as we say, and I think it’s going to be a great election. We’ve got two dysfunctional political parties, each one racing toward it’s own kind of oblivion – the GOP into irrelevancy, since most if the efforts it has made are about securing donors an appropriate place at the trough – and since they are losing power, why should the donors care? – and the Democrats, who have for decades managed to weld contradictory interest groups together into a coalition. Now the most reliable two members of the coalition want to kill each other. And we’ve got to decent, human, smart candidates, each with a wheelbarrow of flaws.<\/p>\n

So which party mechanism will crumble faster? Which candidate’s flaws will blow up in their faces? And meanwhile, we may actually have an intelligent dispute about issues if the candidates can escape their handlers long enough to speak their minds.<\/p>\n

Oh, and did I mention that a black man was nominated for the Presidency? For all the jet-setters who talk about the progressive wonders of Europe, try standing a well-spoken black man up as a prime ministerial candidate in England or France or Italy. Only in America – but oh, wait, we’re not really exceptional…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of free ice cream, but work has been leaving me feeling like Laocoon this week… The big news is, obviously Obama. It’s on, as we say, and I think it’s going to be a great election. We’ve got two dysfunctional political parties, each one racing toward it’s own kind of oblivion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}