{"id":580,"date":"2004-10-26T23:31:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T23:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","slug":"kevin_drum_and_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Drum and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/\" target=\"browser\">Kevin Drum<\/a> and I have known each other for a while; he&#8217;s one of the first other bloggers I met. I know I hold him in high regard even when we disagree, and get the same feeling from him (boy, do I have <b>him<\/b> fooled&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_10\/004993.php\" target=\"browser\">just blogged<\/a> a snippet of our back and forth on <a href=\"http:\/\/windsofchange.net\/archives\/005762.php\" target=\"browser\">my endorsement of Bush<\/a>, with his own thoughts around them; go take a look.<\/p>\n<p>He did leave out something from our dialog that I&#8217;ll toss up here; part of an email from me to him that pretty much sums up my position:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The difference is that you have to factor in the cost of the worst case, which in my mind is very bad indeed.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m 100% positive that Bush will damage the economy and polity in the next 4 years. But I&#8217;m equally positive that he won&#8217;t do anything that can&#8217;t be fought against and fixed.<\/p>\n<p>\nI just can&#8217;t climb the mountain of doubt that I have about Kerry&#8217;s core values when applied to the current situation. At any other time, I wouldn&#8217;t be having this discussion, I&#8217;d just be bitching about how mediocre a President I felt Kerry would be. But this isn&#8217;t any other time&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m behind on &#8216;The Future of the Democratic Party&#8217;; I&#8217;ll try and have it up tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum and I have known each other for a while; he&#8217;s one of the first other bloggers I met. I know I hold him in high regard even when we disagree, and get the same feeling from him (boy, do I have him fooled&#8230;). He just blogged a snippet of our back and forth [&hellip;]<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}