{"id":259,"date":"2006-06-04T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2006-06-04T08:33:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T13:33:22","slug":"i-want-to-be-elected-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/04\/i-want-to-be-elected-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want To Be &#8220;Elected&#8221; (Part 1)&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, <strong>MR<\/strong>&#8216;s gonna run for <strong>&#8220;The Prez&#8221;<\/strong> position&#8230;..  <strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Hesitate &#8211; MR in &#8217;08&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;..  I&#8217;ve got two and a half years to build-up a voter base and since I&#8217;ve never held a political position before, I&#8217;m not corrupted or controlled by &#8220;Special Interest&#8221; groups&#8230;..  As I said before, I don&#8217;t think our founding fathers intended for lifetime career politicians to run our country&#8230;..  It should be <strong>&#8220;Government by the People &#8211; for the People&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;  A lifetime politician has been separated from the general public so long they can&#8217;t possibly have any concept of what <strong>&#8220;We the People&#8221;<\/strong> put up with, so how can they have your best interest at heart?&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, in order to better serve the needs of the people of this great nation, I&#8217;m going to conduct a series of questionnaires starting with <strong>MRambler Central<\/strong>&#8230;..  Here&#8217;s the first three-part question (Remember &#8211; Answer truthfully &#8211; <strong>Honesty in Politics &#8211; What a concept!<\/strong>&#8230;):<\/p>\n<p>a.  Do you vote?&#8230;..<br \/>\nb.  If so, in all elections (local and national) in which you are qualified to do so?&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nc.  Do you throughly research the candidates or do you just vote on the fly?&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Part &#8220;c&#8221; is most important&#8230;..  Voting uninformed is just as bad, if not worse, than not voting at all&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I want to personally thank you for participating in this survey&#8230;..  Your answers will determine whether I should continue the quest for great government or just remain on the <strong>Titanic<\/strong> with everyone else&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, MR&#8216;s gonna run for &#8220;The Prez&#8221; position&#8230;.. &#8220;Don&#8217;t Hesitate &#8211; MR in &#8217;08&#8221;&#8230;.. I&#8217;ve got two and a half years to build-up a voter base and since I&#8217;ve never held a political position before, I&#8217;m not corrupted or controlled by &#8220;Special Interest&#8221; groups&#8230;.. As I said before, I don&#8217;t think our founding fathers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}