{"id":1348,"date":"2012-01-01T23:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2012-01-01T23:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T04:55:04","slug":"election-2012-post-partum-exhilaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/heavy-stuff\/election-2012-post-partum-exhilaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2012 &#8211; post-partum, Exhilaration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I lied when I said that last post was &#8220;the end&#8221;. If the politicians can get away with such blatant twisting or the truth, then so can I. {Actually, I do, but my twisting is in fun and bears no malice &#8211; least most of the time&#8230;}<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, fear not, no more up on the high-horse preaching like there&#8217;ll be no tomorrow. Tomorrow is here, and it deserves a few additional thoughts before we all move along with our lives and forget about politics for another 4 years {which would be very foolish}.<\/p>\n<p>These tweets are my post Election 2012 thoughts. Enjoy them, or not, as you choose.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Though the candidate I voted for won, I&#39;m more relieved than happy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/266165463065690112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Though the candidate I voted for won, I&#8217;m more relieved than happy.<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democracy wins, but the people lose. The future, negative ads, extreme candidates, divide and conquer, is set &#8211; again.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/266165662064459776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Democracy wins, but the people lose. The future, negative ads, extreme candidates, divide and conquer, is set &#8211; again.<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This election is not cause for celebration, but proof of the need for reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/266165812799361024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>This election is not cause for celebration, but proof of the need for reconciliation.<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s not the opposition who are evil, it&#39;s the hidden, unaccountable super PACs &#8211; time to get rid of them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/266169746058248192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>It&#8217;s not the opposition who are evil, it&#8217;s the hidden, unaccountable super PACs &#8211; time to get rid of them.<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EchoJustice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@echojustice<\/a> thank you for that insight. You&#39;re right, and thankfully Barack Obama is a man willing to make the first approach.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/266174562490802176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>@echojustice thank you for that insight. You&#8217;re right, and thankfully Barack Obama is a man willing to make the first approach.<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is no us, and them &#8211; there is only &quot;we&quot;.  We need you, our Statesman, to show us reconciliation and a clear way forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarackObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/266237840432701440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>There is no us, and them &#8211; there is only &#8220;we&#8221;. We need you, our Statesman, to show us reconciliation and a clear way forward. @BarackObama<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I hope the President steps up to the plate, hits a home-run, and brings us all to our feet &#8211; one nation, united once more. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarackObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/266240470148079616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>I hope the President steps up to the plate, hits a home-run, and brings us all to our feet &#8211; one nation, united once more. @BarackObama<\/h6>\n<p>I don&#8217;t anticipate the President actually reading those last tweets, that would presume too much. However, saying them is satisfying enough. Though I selected Barack Obama on my ballot, it was not a vote cast for him, but one cast against Mitt Romney and the terrible social injustice the Republican Party revealed would be our lot &#8220;beneath&#8221; them, should they win.<br \/>\nNow the election is finally over, I&#8217;m getting more hopeful our Statesman {and Barack Obama is certainly that} will step into the position of leadership he deserves. If he does, he&#8217;ll have my full support.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for visiting. To see the more usual &#8220;Twitter-side&#8221; of my multifaceted Gemini personality, head on over <a title=\"random thoughts, of a random mind, mine...\" href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/t\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I lied when I said that last post was &#8220;the end&#8221;. If the politicians can get away with such blatant twisting or the truth, then so can I. {Actually, I do, but my twisting is in fun and bears no malice &#8211; least most of the time&#8230;} Anyway, fear not, no more up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}