{"id":1725,"date":"2008-01-26T00:56:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2008-01-26T00:56:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T04:56:35","slug":"rambo-vs-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Rambo vs. Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he more I watch the US primaries, the absurder it gets. You&#8217;re probably familiar with the fact that Chuck &#8216;I&#8217;m on the Internet too&#8217; Norris is a supporter of Huckabee (actually, the other day, even the local paper published a photo of them). But hey: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/01\/25\/chuck-norris-hearts-huckabee-but-mccain-has-rambo\/\">Sylvester Stallone supports John McCain<\/a>! It&#8217;s like, uh, the return of bad 80s movies where, uh, good is good and bad is evil. USA! USA! USA!\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that the Democrats are doing better either: Earlier this week Obama and Clinton, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/01\/21\/democratic-south-carolina-debate-obama-clinton-take-the-gloves-off\/\">you have to see it for yourself<\/a>. Can you say messy? I must say that I think that Bill Clinton lost a lot of credibility the last couple of weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, I read the parts about the US&#8217;s economic stimulus package too: it mentioned sending people cheques (600 dollars per adult, I believe) and I thought by myself that this was just another short-term solution to keep the US economy afloat until the elections. The problem, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/01\/23\/lou-dobbs-the-war-on-the-middle-class\/\">is much more complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I watch the US primaries, the absurder it gets. You&#8217;re probably familiar with the fact that Chuck &#8216;I&#8217;m on the Internet too&#8217; Norris is a supporter of Huckabee (actually, the other day, even the local paper published a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1725\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[259,47,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}