{"id":276,"date":"2004-02-19T07:32:25","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:01:22","slug":"imploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/19\/imploration\/","title":{"rendered":"imploration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I’m sad to see Howard Dean<\/a> drop out of the race, I implore those of you he excited to stay in the political game. We should either still vote for him on primary day in our states, or else vote for John Edwards.<\/a> I feel Edwards is a much better\/stronger candidate than Kerry, with more differing views from Bush, and therefore has a better chance of taking the win. Although Dean was my first choice, I still feel I could, in theory, be proud to call Edwards our Prez, while Kerry is really a lesser of two evils (granted, next to Bush, a lot<\/i> less of an evil, but still)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I’m sad to see Howard Dean drop out of the race, I implore those of you he excited to stay in the political game. We should either still vote for him on primary day in our states, or else vote for John Edwards. I feel Edwards is a much better\/stronger candidate than Kerry, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-4s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":288,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/04\/please-get-rid-of-him\/","url_meta":{"origin":276,"position":0},"title":"please get rid of him","author":"nathaniel","date":"04 February 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Super Tuesday's results Analysts examine Tuesday's results - if Kerry has the minority vote, as the first analyst on this page says, then why are all of the analysts of color talking about Howard Dean? iVote and the primaries. 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(Is this a good thing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":53,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/26\/all-polly-tykes-all-the-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":276,"position":4},"title":"all polly tykes all the time","author":"nathaniel","date":"26 April 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Referenced from The Note, check out The Bush Chronology (pdf document - need acrobat reader). Biased but not opinionated, and all too true, timeline of Dubyah's Doings. I'm feeling better today, thanks to Dr. Charmers (not a pun; that's really my doctor's - fitting - name!). 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