{"id":6454,"date":"2011-10-14T03:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T03:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2011-10-14T03:38:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T03:38:43","slug":"mr-roboto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/mr-roboto\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Roboto!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Romney?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For all that, Romney is still Romney. I remember sitting amazed at a Romney town hall in New Hampshire in 2008 when he didn\u2019t express any empathy for a girl who stood up and asked a question about stem cells against the backdrop of her cousin who had suffered a terrible injury. I thought of that event when, at the Hopkinton town hall, a college-age girl asked Romney why he would say that ideally, children should be raised by a man and woman \u2014 as he did when asked about gay marriage \u2014 when she was raised by her mother and grandmother. At least a warm, sympathetic word or two seemed in order, but Romney basically reverted to his standard answer on gay marriage.<\/p>\n

In such circumstances it\u2019s as if he doesn\u2019t see persons, only disembodied data points to be slotted into his hard drive so he can download the appropriate response….<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait, this<\/i> is a criticism! Give me a candidate who deals in data points! But alas, I’m not the typical voter. If Mitt Romney gets nominated we may see the broad outlines of a campaign which similarities to 1988, when a robotic technocratic Massachusetts governor was running for the Democrats. Of course Romney has been dealt a much “better” economic card. So the American people may yet vote for the Mormon robot! In 2008 they voted for a black liberal with a long association with a black nationalist preacher who regularly expressed anti-American views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Romney?: For all that, Romney is still Romney. I remember sitting amazed at a Romney town hall in New Hampshire in 2008 when he didn\u2019t express any empathy for a girl who stood up and asked a question … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6456,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}