{"id":360,"date":"2004-02-21T06:36:02","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2004-02-21T06:36:02","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T10:36:02","slug":"election-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Election Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I doubt few liberals would have a problem pointing out the hypocrisy of George Bush appointing activist judges <\/a>without Senate approval while decrying the role of activist judges<\/a> in the gay marriages taking place in San Francisco <\/a>. The New Mexico county that began issuing licenses Friday has agreed to stop since the state attorney general declared them invalid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet where are the indignant when it comes to the irrational fear of a Ralph Nader candidacy<\/a> in the 2004 election and the concept of free elections?<\/p>\n

How can one criticise Bush’s interventions in Iraq’s election process<\/a> and still get their tails in a knot about Ralph?<\/p>\n

Borzou Daragahi on Iran’s elections in The Daily Star<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a><\/i> reports that partial results in what reformists branded a ‘rigged election’ show the hard-liners winning “43 of the first 83 constituencies declared, out of 289 seats contested on Friday<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I doubt few liberals would have a problem pointing out the hypocrisy of George Bush appointing activist judges without Senate approval while decrying the role of activist judges in the gay marriages taking place in San Francisco . The New … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-5O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}