{"id":516,"date":"2008-01-31T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T00:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2008\/01\/31\/by-every-means-possible\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T01:06:06","slug":"by-every-means-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2008\/01\/31\/by-every-means-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"By Every Means Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2008\/01\/obamawomen.jpg\" alt=\"Campaigning in Harvard Square on a cold winter night.\" height=\"296\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first choice of course was Elizabeth Kucinich. Dennis probably would be the best in the history of First Spice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2008\/01\/kuciniches.JPG\" alt=\"Elizabeth Kucinich and First Spouse candidate Dennis\" height=\"361\" width=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen more Obama energy in and near Harvard Yard than any other candidate. Not a lot, but more than anyone else. If it comes down to it, I&#8217;ll gladly spend the hour it will take to vote for Obama. Hopefully, it will be an Obama-Edwards ticket. But the candidates &#8220;left standing&#8221; are all waffling on the Regional War in the Middle East. What&#8217;s wrong with America being number one in <strong>sustainable<\/strong> economic development? Or are we dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Lai_massacre\" target=\"_blank\">My Lai<\/a> on a regional scale? We have to destroy the region to save it?<\/p>\n<p>We have a Supreme Court, largely Harvard trained, who clearly violated the legislative intent of the Constitution in 2000 and will be in place for another generation. A Congress unable to stop funding escalation in the region despite the Tide of &#8217;06 and a President who &#8220;signs away&#8221; a restriction on building a permanent presence and proposes to put more weapons in the region.<\/p>\n<p>If we wait a year for <strong>change<\/strong>, it will be impossible. We need to be moving now, by every means possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first choice of course was Elizabeth Kucinich. Dennis probably would be the best in the history of First Spice. I&#8217;ve seen more Obama energy in and near Harvard Yard than any other candidate. Not a lot, but more than anyone else. If it comes down to it, I&#8217;ll gladly spend the hour it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}