{"id":5417,"date":"2008-06-16T00:56:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T00:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/mccain-is-not-my-candidate.html"},"modified":"2008-06-16T00:56:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T00:56:27","slug":"mccain-is-not-my-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/mccain-is-not-my-candidate.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain is not my candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This keeps coming up in the comments section of posts. People think I should be posting about McCain and defending him instead of just attacking Obama. They think I&#8217;m attacking Obama because I think it will somehow help McCain. Let me make myself abundantly clear and maybe this time it will sink in: McCain is not my candidate. I may or may not vote for him in the fall, I haven&#8217;t decided. Though I have a lesser of two evils policy when I vote, I&#8217;m beginning to think that the lesser of the two evils is for Democrats to tank the economy and destroy our freedoms and not a Republican. I still think that McCain is infinitely better than Obama but that&#8217;s not saying much and it&#8217;s certainly not good enough for the job.<br \/>\nSo, I have no interest in blogging about McCain. None. Even when he says something stupid, I&#8217;m not interested. I may occasionally post something about him but usually it&#8217;s just perfunctory because I know it&#8217;s expected. My heart really isn&#8217;t in it.<br \/>\nI blog about Obama because I&#8217;m interested in his candidacy. He is a fascinating character. So arrogant and full of himself, and yet so loved. He&#8217;s the bright, shining hope that&#8217;s going to bring us change in the form of socialism. He really is a study in contradictions. He&#8217;s naked and when you point it out, everyone ridicules you. How can you walk away from something like that? It&#8217;s way too much fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This keeps coming up in the comments section of posts. People think I should be posting about McCain and defending him instead of just attacking Obama. They think I&#8217;m attacking Obama because I think it will somehow help McCain. 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