{"id":209,"date":"2004-10-09T01:52:12","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2004-10-09T01:52:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T09:52:12","slug":"campaign-reanimated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/campaign-reanimated\/","title":{"rendered":"campaign reanimated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/1004\/johnkerry_01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">John Kerry speaks with the daughter of Dean Halsey.<\/span>I stop by Trader Joe&#8217;s this evening to get strawberries and whipping cream in honor of Juliet&#8217;s birthday. Then I listen to most of the debate as I run a few errands. In doing so I miss the Medicare exchange. That&#8217;s a relief, though on the whole, John Kerry does rather well tonight against Dubya.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/1004\/johnkerry_02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">John Kerry attacked by shovel-wielding colleague.<\/span>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Dubya comes out fighting and he makes a stronger stand than he did in the last debate. The town meeting format works against the good Senator. Georgie seems to work well with an audience and he has a good feel for the stage. He isn&#8217;t as flat-out pathetic as he was during the last debate. But though Kerry seems to have worked himself into a stupid corner on a few issues, he makes some seriously good points (in response to the stem cell question, for example, he responds that he doesn&#8217;t want to legislate anything based on one or another party&#8217;s religious beliefs. Good answer.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/1004\/johnkerry_03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">Kerry decapitated by shovel.<\/span>Speaking with <a href=\"http:\/\/bobickerstaff.buzznet.com\/user\/\">BoBickerstaff<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dippermouth2000.buzznet.com\/user\/\">DipperMouth<\/a> at Jones tonight, I&#8217;m happy to hear that they feel Kerry came out stronger after this debate. Public opinion seems to be divided along <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/politics\/Vote2004\/second_debate_instapoll_041008.html\">party lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/1004\/johnkerry_04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">Having been reanimated by his colleague, Kerry explains his fiscal policy.<\/span>Alright, alright. You&#8217;ve probably guessed that these photos are not from the presidential debate (especially those of you who <em>watched<\/em> it rather than simply listened to it, like I did.) These are, of course, images from the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089885\/\">Re-Animator<\/a>. The actor is <strong>David Gale<\/strong>, now deceased (though of complications from heart surgery, not a shovel through the neck.) He&#8217;s splendid in that film as the calculating and ambitious <strong>Dr. Carl Hill<\/strong>, but damned if I didn&#8217;t favor the pre-primal scream <strong>Howard Dean<\/strong> over Kerry simply because Kerry made me think of that headless body shambling about with Dr. Hill&#8217;s head in his hands, liberally smearing blood and goo over Barbara Crampton&#8217;s naked body.<\/p>\n<p>Issues, Will! Issues! Not slime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry speaks with the daughter of Dean Halsey.I stop by Trader Joe&#8217;s this evening to get strawberries and whipping cream in honor of Juliet&#8217;s birthday. Then I listen to most of the debate as I run a few errands. In doing so I miss the Medicare exchange. That&#8217;s a relief, though on the whole, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,29,28],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}