{"id":2426,"date":"2008-04-12T05:09:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T10:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2008-04-12T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T14:50:50","slug":"never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"Never Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mayhill-fowler\/obama-no-surprise-that-ha_b_96188.html\">Barack Obama on middle America<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>So it&#8217;s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren&#8217;t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing like a little bigotry to kick off campaign season.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a good stretch for Democrat bigotry; it kicked off with Saint Paul City Council prez Dave Thune worrying in public that\u00a0 Republican delegates would puke all over Saint Paul if the bars stayed open (and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2404\">clarifying<\/a>&#8221; that while he wasn&#8217;t trying to insult lobbyists, Republicans <em>were <\/em>a bunch of warmongers).<\/p>\n<p>Back in &#8217;04, the Dems were good enough to keep the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=12\">most preening pieces of bigotry<\/a> until <em>after <\/em>the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t technology grand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama on middle America: So it&#8217;s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren&#8217;t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Nothing like a little bigotry to kick off campaign season. It&#8217;s been a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","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=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}