{"id":876,"date":"2008-08-27T17:18:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2008\/08\/27\/candidates-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T00:48:43","slug":"candidates-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2008\/08\/candidates-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late great Bill Hicks put it this way:<\/p>\n

“They’re all the same. I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is right here:”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Hey wait minute there’s one guy holding up both puppets!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s<\/a> Matt Taibbi’s version of the story updated for the 2008 War for the White House, from the The Rolling Stone<\/em>, Issue 1059 \u2014 August 21, 2008\u2014What do Obama and McCain have in common? The same big donors, who will expect to have their way no matter who wins.<\/p>\n

Hear the Bill Hicks bit here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late great Bill Hicks put it this way: “They’re all the same. I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is right here:” “I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.” “I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.” “Hey wait minute there’s one guy holding up both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[4291,5905,2208,2645],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","tag-elections","tag-mccain","tag-obama","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}