{"id":2559,"date":"2008-12-24T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2008-12-24T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T20:23:22","slug":"deep-thought-of-the-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2559","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thought Of The Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via SLOG, via Twitter&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet when we elect our first gay president, he doesn&#8217;t invite an avowed racist to deliver the invocation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They say that gay folk, liberals and progressives are furious over Rick Warren being chosen to give the inagural invocation.&nbsp; Well then our fury is some pretty pathetic stuff isn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; Compare and contrast: suppose McCain had won, and then invited Gene Robinson to give the invocation.&nbsp; Imagine the fury on the right.&nbsp; The boycott by the right of the inaugural would be instantaneous and total.&nbsp; Nobody&#8230;Nobody&#8230;on the right would show up.&nbsp; Not to sit by McCain in the stands, not to march in the parade&#8230;they&#8217;d even walk away from cabinet positions.&nbsp; The rage from the right wing media would be blistering, second only to the nuclear bombs being lobbed from the Mega-Church and Jesus Mall pulpits all over America.&nbsp; Total war would be declared on the McCain presidency then and there. Four years into his presidency and he&#8217;d still be hearing it, the outrage not one iota less.&nbsp; They&#8217;d never forgive him.&nbsp; They&#8217;d be beating him over the head with it every second of every day of every year of his first term.&nbsp; And make no mistake, he&#8217;d never get a second.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>Now open your eyes and take another look at the so-called fury on the left.&nbsp; Pretty lame, isn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; American liberals are so cute when they&#8217;re angry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via SLOG, via Twitter&#8230; I&#8217;ll bet when we elect our first gay president, he doesn&#8217;t invite an avowed racist to deliver the invocation. They say that gay folk, liberals and progressives are furious over Rick Warren being chosen to give the inagural invocation.&nbsp; Well then our fury is some pretty pathetic stuff isn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; Compare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[53,19],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-feckless-democrats","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}