{"id":477,"date":"2004-10-19T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/10\/19\/minding-ones-own-business\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:33:09","slug":"minding-ones-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/10\/19\/minding-ones-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Minding One&#8217;s Own Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a169'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.uk\">The Guardian<\/a> in Britain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/19\/britain.letters.reut\/index.html\">asked its readers to send anti-Bush letters to voters in swing states in the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m obviously pro-Kerry, and I obviously want to see more transatlantic cooperation, but that&#8217;s just stupid and superbly miscalculated. I can only imagine the British&#8217;s reactions if Americans were to do the same thing by writing letters supporting Tony Blair. British citizens would clearly find it an appalling invasion of their political process.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention that the result is probably counter-productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian in Britain asked its readers to send anti-Bush letters to voters in swing states in the US. Now, I&#8217;m obviously pro-Kerry, and I obviously want to see more transatlantic cooperation, but that&#8217;s just stupid and superbly miscalculated. I can only imagine the British&#8217;s reactions if Americans were to do the same thing by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}