{"id":200,"date":"2008-02-25T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/02\/25\/dear-ralph-go-away\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T22:00:10","slug":"dear-ralph-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/02\/25\/dear-ralph-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Ralph: Go Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think <a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/politics\/electoral-college\/17981\/ralph-nader-will-run-for-president-again-but-faces-different-political-landscape\/\">Ralph Nader<\/a> keeps running for president because he&#8217;s an egomaniac and a blowhard.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m starting to suspect that he suffers from Dubya-disease &#8212; he needs to feel relevant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Ralph: Go Away!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Nader has surfaced again<br \/>\nTo proclaim he&#8217;s a prince among men<br \/>\nAnd our nation&#8217;s salvation.<br \/>\nGive up your fixation,<br \/>\nRalph. Find a new hobby. Try zen.<\/p>\n<p>For more Ralph Nader humor, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/satiricalpolitical.com\/?p=1526\">Ralph Nader, &#8216;Unsafe At Any Age,&#8217;<\/a> by Don Davis\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6837&#038;srch=\">Nader Announces Plan To Wreck Election, But Prominent Crackpots Are Cool To Bid,<\/a> by Andy Borowitz. And for a serious take on the topic, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dickpolman.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/ralph-nader-tragedy-and-farce.html\">Ralph Nader, Tragedy And Farce, by Dick Polman.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think Ralph Nader keeps running for president because he&#8217;s an egomaniac and a blowhard.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m starting to suspect that he suffers from Dubya-disease &#8212; he needs to feel relevant.\u00a0 And now it&#8217;s time for a limerick: Dear Ralph: Go Away! By Madeleine Begun Kane Ralph Nader has surfaced again To proclaim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,6,7,3,87,17],"tags":[192,194,1064,1063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}