{"id":2715,"date":"2004-08-02T17:28:59","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T07:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/seeing-cheney-requires-signing-loyalty-oath\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:40:46","slug":"seeing-cheney-requires-signing-loyalty-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/seeing-cheney-requires-signing-loyalty-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Cheney requires signing &#8216;loyalty oath&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8021,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10466,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/001790.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050227102110\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net:80\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/001790.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 05:38:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 23:57:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 23:57:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10467,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.abqjournal.com\\\/elex\\\/204620elex07-30-04.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.abqjournal.com\\\/elex\\\/204620elex07-30-04.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/\" title=\"geek*muffin\">Kirsten<\/a> sent this my way earlier today, and then I ran across it again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esoterically.net\/log\/archives\/001790.html\" title=\"esoterically.net: Loyalty Oath\">on Len&#8217;s site<\/a>, and both times it just made my skin crawl: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/elex\/204620elex07-30-04.htm\" title=\"Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement\">Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Some would-be spectators hoping to attend Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s rally in Rio Rancho this weekend walked out of a Republican campaign office miffed and ticketless Thursday after getting this news:<\/p>\n<p>  Unless you sign an endorsement for President George W. Bush, you&#8217;re not getting any passes.<\/p>\n<p>  The Albuquerque Bush-Cheney Victory office in charge of doling out the tickets to Saturday&#8217;s event was requiring the endorsement forms from people it could not verify as supporters.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  An endorsement form provided to the Journal by Random says: &#8220;I, (full name) &#8230; do herby (sic) endorse George W. Bush for reelection of the United States.&#8221; It later adds that, &#8220;In signing the above endorsement you are consenting to use and release of your name by Bush-Cheney as an endorser of President Bush.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for open government, of the people, for the people, and by the people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Injected With a Poison (Sinsational)&#8221; by Khan, Praga from the album <em>Injected With a Poison<\/em> (1998, 6:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten sent this my way earlier today, and then I ran across it again on Len&#8217;s site, and both times it just made my skin crawl: Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement.<\/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-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","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=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}