{"id":139,"date":"2006-11-27T04:13:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T10:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/27\/is-it-kerry\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T04:18:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T10:18:57","slug":"is-it-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Is it Kerry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; it&#8217;s fellow veteran Chuck Rangel, not so much attacking the troops as <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/26\/video-rangel-says-men-join-the-army-only-if-they-cant-have-a-decent-career\/\">claiming they&#8217;re too dumb to know better<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Allahpundit notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[the left need] to find a way to exculpate our all-volunteer military for their role in it; blaming them, however obliquely, is politically unviable, which is why even Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore insist they support the troops. Solution: deny their autonomy. Pretend that they\u2019re either too stupid or too lazy or too poor to do anything but enlist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As to that whole &#8220;decent career&#8221; thing &#8211; AlPundit and I both thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ilario_Pantano\">the same example<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; it&#8217;s fellow veteran Chuck Rangel, not so much attacking the troops as claiming they&#8217;re too dumb to know better: If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq. Allahpundit notes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}