{"id":726,"date":"2008-10-05T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T20:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=726"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:50:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:50:41","slug":"blind-in-one-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Blind in One Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It bothers me that some of my friends have become so obsessed with the inadequacy of <em>one<\/em> of the two major party Presidential candidates that they seem to have quite lost sight of just how inadequate a President the <em>other<\/em> man can be expected to be.<\/p> <p>There is no <em>good<\/em> choice on the ballot, and I expect greater national despair by the next mid-term elections. (We'll see whether, at the time of the next Presidential election, the <em>other<\/em> party, whichever it may be, offers a <em>better<\/em> candidate then, or decides that, in the context of their rivals' failure, they can <em>push the envelope<\/em> of opportunism, of lunacy, or of both.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It bothers me that some of my friends have become so obsessed with the inadequacy of one of the two major party Presidential candidates that they seem to have quite lost sight of just how inadequate a President the other man can be expected to be. There is no good choice on the ballot, and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[135,132,44,45,401],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-public","tag-barack-obama","tag-john-mccain","tag-mccain","tag-obama","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}