{"id":4177,"date":"2008-02-22T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/22\/john-mcclane-for-president-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:18:12","slug":"john-mcclane-for-president-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/22\/john-mcclane-for-president-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"John McClane for President in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5625,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.anationforchange.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100108113005\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.anationforchange.com:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:36:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 05:39:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:25:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 04:00:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 06:51:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 06:51:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5626,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Angus_MacGyver&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308134702\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Angus_MacGyver&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Angus_MacGyver&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:25:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:25:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5627,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nyquil.org\\\/archives\\\/1062-Imitation-is-the-Sincerest-Form-of-Flattery-20th-Century-Fox-steals-my-gag-to-promote-their-movie.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/nyquil.org\\\/archives\\\/1062-Imitation-is-the-Sincerest-Form-of-Flattery-20th-Century-Fox-steals-my-gag-to-promote-their-movie.html&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.anationforchange.com\/\" title=\"A Nation for Change\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anationforchange.com\/mcclane_embed.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"92\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Now <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anationforchange.com\/\" title=\"A Nation for Change\">here&#8217;s<\/a><\/em> a presidential candidate I can get behind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  McClane was fighting the war on terror before it even had a name &#8212; and he&#8217;s proven he can win it.<\/p>\n<p>  John McClane believes in strong health care &#8212; he just doesn&#8217;t have time to get to a doctor when he&#8217;s being shot at.<\/p>\n<p>  McClane gets that technology creates as many problems as it solves. Relying on a gadget is no replacement for doing it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>  McClane knows that patriotism isn&#8217;t about waving a flag while you sit on the couch watching &#8216;American Idol&#8217;. It&#8217;s about getting off your butt and fighting for what&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>  McClane is the American cowboy for our times. He gets how important action-packed portrayals of true heroism are.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since he hasn&#8217;t announced a running mate yet, given that I&#8217;m not in <em>entire<\/em> agreement with his stance on technology, may I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angus_MacGyver\" title=\"Wikipedia: Angus MacGuyver\">Angus MacGyver<\/a>? Equally as able to get out and get things done, but his willingness to use and adapt available technology would be a nice balance to McClane&#8217;s &#8216;hands-on&#8217; approach.<\/p>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nyquil.org\/archives\/1062-Imitation-is-the-Sincerest-Form-of-Flattery-20th-Century-Fox-steals-my-gag-to-promote-their-movie.html\" title=\"nyquil.org: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: 20th Century Fox steals my gag to promote their movie\">nyquil.org<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now _here&#8217;s_ a presidential candidate I can get behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042,2037],"tags":[2262,23,6,14],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tv-and-films","tag-die-hard","tag-film","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","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=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}