{"id":3552,"date":"2008-10-27T19:07:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2008-10-27T19:07:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:07:49","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"What’s In A Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t lose a lot of sleep about how other people choose to express their political beliefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wanna demonstrate?\u00a0 Chain yourself to a fence?\u00a0 Make a big papier-mache doll head?\u00a0 Knock yourself out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But one thing Obama supporters consistently do, I gotta confess, rubs me way <\/em>the wrong way.<\/p>\n

Constantly calling the Senator “Barack”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, I know it’s his first name.\u00a0 And if one were talking to <\/em>him, calling him “Barack”, while a little informal for my conservative rural tastes, might be one thing.<\/p>\n

But I get emails, constantly, from Obama’s campaign, like this one:\u00a0“Take Election Day off for Barack”<\/p>\n

I don’t recall a single piece of literature, ever, saying “Come out and work for Ronald” or “Let’s get behind John and Sarah”.\u00a0\u00a0 Not even being partisan here – the whole concept just gives me the creeps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it smacks of personality cultism, just a little?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t lose a lot of sleep about how other people choose to express their political beliefs.\u00a0 Wanna demonstrate?\u00a0 Chain yourself to a fence?\u00a0 Make a big papier-mache doll head?\u00a0 Knock yourself out.\u00a0 But one thing Obama supporters consistently do, I gotta confess, rubs me way the wrong way. Constantly calling the Senator “Barack”.\u00a0 No, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}