{"id":4413,"date":"2008-10-12T08:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T13:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2008-10-12T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T14:02:39","slug":"americans-are-still-crazy-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4413","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are &#8220;Still Crazy After All These Years&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AtlanticFreePress\/~3\/418499321\/index.php\">European  Friends Write: &#8220;Are You Americans Crazy?&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nby Dr. Bernard Weiner, Atlantic Free Press, 12 October 2008<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. BEYOND THE  &#8220;CRAZY&#8221; FACTOR<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bush, with his policies and wars, has nearly wrecked the  U.S. Constitution and economy and America&#8217;s moral standing abroad. We don&#8217;t  understand why your John McCain, so closely associated with the Bush policies that brought these disasters upon your country and the world, should be nearly even in the polls with Obama. Have you guys gone crazy?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbr.com\/paulsimon\/lyrics\/still_crazy_after.html\">still crazy<\/a> (if not crazier) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=46bkXgxb66E\">after all these years<\/a>:<br \/>\n<strong>Man At Palin Rally Displays Monkey Doll Donning Obama Sticker<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Scott Conroy, CBS News&#8217; &#8220;From the Road&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/11\/politics\/fromtheroad\/entry4515246.shtml\">11 October 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Palin finished her remarks this morning, the man holding the stuffed monkey seemed to notice that a video camera was pointed at him, at which point he removed the Obama sticker from the doll\u2019s head and crumpling it up in his hand. He then handed the doll to a young boy who was watching the rally from his father\u2019s shoulders. The boy\u2019s parents later told CBS News that they weren\u2019t acquainted with the man who gave their son the stuffed monkey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.cbs.com'>Watch CBS Videos Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Friends Write: &#8220;Are You Americans Crazy?&#8221; by Dr. Bernard Weiner, Atlantic Free Press, 12 October 2008 1. BEYOND THE &#8220;CRAZY&#8221; FACTOR &#8220;Bush, with his policies and wars, has nearly wrecked the U.S. Constitution and economy and America&#8217;s moral standing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-19b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","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=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}