{"id":2030,"date":"2014-09-30T07:17:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2014-09-30T07:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T11:17:31","slug":"liberal-or-conservative-keeping-my-options-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Liberal or Conservative? Keeping My Options Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2031\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG139.jpg\" alt=\"Liberal or Conservative? Keeping My Options Open\" width=\"560\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG139.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MLMG139-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/09\/MLMG139.jpg&amp;name=Liberal or Conservative? Keeping My Options Open...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>September 28, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When people ask me whether I&#8217;m liberal or conservative, I say neither because I like to keep my options open. It&#8217;s not that I can&#8217;t make commitments &#8212; I did the rough sketch for this cartoon with a pencil I bought at the Michigan Tech bookstore 30+ years ago. How&#8217;s that for commitment! No, it&#8217;s more that I don&#8217;t want to wear a label that others define (then violate).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What I&#8217;m saying in the cartoon I believe to be absolutely true: in general, those who identify themselves as liberals tend to want to be so fair about everything that it can create a mess. At a certain point, legislators need\u00a0to consider whether the laws they propose are\u00a0actually functional. Conservatives, in general, have great disdain for this. Until, of course, they see a very specific fairness they want to legislate. <a title=\"Jace Bolger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lansing-news\/index.ssf\/2014\/09\/michigan_may_pair_gay_rights_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Case in point<\/a>, Michigan Speaker of the House Jase Bolger floating the idea of paring a gay right amendment with a &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; act. Uh-huh. That wouldn&#8217;t open a Pandora&#8217;s Box of differing interpretations, counter laws, and lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, yeah. Keeping my options open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News September 28, 2014 When people ask me whether I&#8217;m liberal or conservative, I say neither because I like to keep my options open. It&#8217;s not that I can&#8217;t make commitments &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}