{"id":2691,"date":"2008-02-24T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2008-02-24T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T19:51:00","slug":"hes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/24\/AR2008022400481.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&#038;sub=AR\" target=\"_blank\">the perennial is reentering<\/a> the presidental race.  The first time he did it, it was potentially interesting, demonstrating dissatisfaction with the choices, although many believe he is responsible for the shrubbery planted in the West Wing. The second time he did it, he didn\u2019t mount a credable attack, although there was dissatisfaction with the choices. This third time, however, is <i>not<\/i> the charm: we have interesting and qualified choices, he\u2019s old (even older than McCain), and he\u2019s lost any positive reputation he had.<\/p>\n<p>So, the American populace, I give you your latest Presidential Candidate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votenader.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Nader<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harold_Stassen\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Stassen of a new Generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the perennial is reentering the presidental race. The first time he did it, it was potentially interesting, demonstrating dissatisfaction with the choices, although many believe he is responsible for the shrubbery planted in the West Wing. The second time he did it, he didn\u2019t mount a credable attack, although there was dissatisfaction with the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2691\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-lj-xfer","tag-decision-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}