{"id":4051,"date":"2007-11-18T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:47:04","slug":"obama-mania-upd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"Obama-mania Update VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my die-hard, yellow dog Democrat* friends are big Obama supporters. And there was an op ed in the <strong>NY Times<\/strong> a few days ago, as well as a long (much too long) piece by Andrew Sullivan in the <strong>Atlantic Monthly<\/strong>. The common theme is that Obama will be a unifier, taking us beyond partisan politics.** <\/p>\n<p>Here is a very interesting post on <strong>Althouse<\/strong>, about another recent feature on Obama, in <strong>The New Yorker<\/strong> magazine . I haven&#8217;t read the New Yorker article, but it seems the gist of it is in this post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/bunch-of-conventional-wisdom-patched.html\"><strong>Althouse: &quot;A bunch of conventional wisdom patched together.&quot;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* A yellow dog Democrat &#8211; someone who will vote Democrat even if their candidate is a yellow dog.<\/p>\n<p>** My opinion, expressed in other posts I&#8217;ve put up, is that Obama is Dan Quayle Lite. Form without substance. An empty suit. I am quite sure the Obama campaign could care less about my opinon.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my die-hard, yellow dog Democrat* friends are big Obama supporters. And there was an op ed in the NY Times a few days ago, as well as a long (much too long) piece by Andrew Sullivan in the Atlantic Monthly. The common theme is that Obama will be a unifier, taking us beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14300,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/14300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}