{"id":2113,"date":"2004-01-09T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T08:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/10\/kodak-moments\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:01:17","slug":"kodak-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/09\/kodak-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12391,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/2hrlunch.typepad.com\\\/bloggo\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/le_moment_blogg.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040907143103\\\/http:\\\/\\\/2hrlunch.typepad.com:80\\\/bloggo\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/le_moment_blogg.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 22:35:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 00:12:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 00:12:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/2hrlunch.typepad.com\/bloggo\/2004\/01\/le_moment_blogg.html\" title=\"Le Moment Bloggabile\">Mr.\u00a0Man says he hears a knock.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Yup, it&#8217;s a faint knock.<\/p>\n<p>  I open the door a crack and it&#8217;s Eric. Eric is from the Sierra Club &#8220;our nation&#8217;s oldest environmental group&#8221; and did I know the Bush administration is a total disaster environmentally and the Bush administration&#8217;s policies are &#8220;raping our forrests and &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  ME: One question.<\/p>\n<p>  ERIC: Sure.<\/p>\n<p>  ME: Did you vote for Nader in 2000?<\/p>\n<p>  ERIC: Yes sir!<\/p>\n<p>  ME: Get off my fucking porch.<\/p>\n<p>  The good news is &#8211; Mr.\u00a0Man learned a new word tonight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Picture me, standing up and applauding.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, I have more respect for someone who votes &#8212; even if they voted for Nader &#8212; than for someone who doesn&#8217;t vote. I also can&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> argue with someone voting their conscience, if they cast their vote for the candidate they truly thought would best lead the country.<\/p>\n<p>However.<\/p>\n<p>Last election (and the three years since then) should serve as an example to any and everyone. Much as people may wish that a third-party candidate could come out of nowhere and win, realistically, <em>it&#8217;s not going to happen<\/em>. At this point, any vote that does not go to help the Democratic nominee gain the Presidential office will just help Bush retain his position, and that&#8217;s the last thing we need right now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a Dean supporter. But in the event that Dean doesn&#8217;t get the nomination, the bottom line is simply <strong>anybody but Bush<\/strong>. And by &#8220;anybody&#8221;, I mean anybody who can realistically have a chance of defeating Bush &#8212; and by that, I mean the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;the bottom line is simply anybody but Bush. And by &#8216;anybody&#8217;, I mean anybody who can realistically have a chance of defeating Bush &mdash; and by that, I mean the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}