{"id":2368,"date":"2010-10-10T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-10-10T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T18:06:24","slug":"why_i_dont_auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don’t Automatically Bow To The Superior Wisdom Of Our Political Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, a guy who managed to become a well-regarded GOP Congressional candidate has an interesting hobby – he dresses up as a Waffen-SS officer<\/a> and participates in WW II re-enactments.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t know enough to judge his choice of character (I’m sure there are Redcoat re-enactors who don’t wish the Yankees lost the Revolutionary War). But I do know enough to wonder “what the hell was he thinking?” How in the wide, wide world of sports can someone get to a position where they are running for Congress and not think “Hmmm. Maybe I need to do a statement explaining why there are all these pictures of me dressed up as a SS officer.” Or that a political party is so clueless that they wouldn’t have an intern spend an hour doing Google-fu to check out candidates they were touting.<\/p>\n

So the next time someone from Washington adopts a superior attitude, and suggests you should listen to them because of their superior wisdom – think about this.
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Yeah, the political cream rises to the top all right.<\/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\/2368"}],"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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}