{"id":11646,"date":"2008-05-20T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/the-right-choice\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T11:39:00","slug":"the-right-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/the-right-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the <i>American Conservative Magazine<\/i> article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/2008\/2008_03_24\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Right Choice?<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\" target=\"_blank\"><i>del.icio.us\/popular<\/i><\/a> and was intrigued enough to read it.  It was not at all what I expected, denigrating W&rsquo;s legacy, doubting the efficacy of a McCain presidency, and all but endorsing Obama: &ldquo;For conservatives, Obama represents a sliver of hope. McCain represents none at all. The choice turns out to be an easy one.&rdquo;  Definitely worth the read&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/\" title=\"via Hot Links\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/2008\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-9061364828329958671?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the American Conservative Magazine article The Right Choice? at del.icio.us\/popular and was intrigued enough to read it. It was not at all what I expected, denigrating W&rsquo;s legacy, doubting the efficacy of a McCain presidency, and all but endorsing Obama: &ldquo;For conservatives, Obama represents a sliver of hope. McCain represents none at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/the-right-choice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Right Choice?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}