{"id":272,"date":"2008-06-05T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T21:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2008-06-05T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T21:48:27","slug":"no-i-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"no, i can&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry Obama fans, as a libertarian, there&#8217;s no way I can in good conscience support someone that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We can&#8217;t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times &#8230; and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last thing the world needs is the government or the UN telling us what we can and cannot do.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &#8220;Global Poverty Act&#8221; (S.2433) would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government&#8217;s job is not to tell us what we can do, or how it will spend our hard earned money.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/videos.jhtml?videoId=171135\">George Will was on the Colbert Report the other night<\/a>, he said that liberals believe in equality, and conservatives believe in freedom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservatives understand that the government&#8217;s job is to deliver the mail, defend the shores, and get out of the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, the neo-conservative candidate John McCain does not actually believe this, so we&#8217;re left with two really bad choices.  Other than voting for the libertarian or constitutional party candidates, we&#8217;re badly missing out on the only real choice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/2553914393\/\" title=\"Ron Paul in Arizona by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2161\/2553914393_c046a7aa2c.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Ron Paul in Arizona\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m still holding out hope that our country will <a href=\"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/2008\/05\/11\/reading-the-revolution\/\">wake up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry Obama fans, as a libertarian, there&#8217;s no way I can in good conscience support someone that said: We can&#8217;t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times &#8230; and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. The last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[16,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}