{"id":2659,"date":"2008-06-04T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2008-06-06T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:56:09","slug":"send-the-waaaahmbulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"Would You Like An After-Dinner Mint With That, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kimball in the MNPost apparently has been taking a hit off of Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s bong.<\/p>\n<p>He apparently thinks that Minnesota Republicans should\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politicalagenda\/2008\/06\/03\/2092\/so_much_for_mondays_gop_welcome_of_obama_to_st_paul_#69-2092\">bend over and ask Senator Obama where he&#8217;s like us to kiss him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>So much for Monday&#8217;s GOP &#8216;welcome&#8217; of Obama to St. Paul &#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nNot wanting the Democrats to get all the St. Paul headlines today&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps he expected us to send Obama &#8211; <em>our opponent<\/em> &#8211; a marching band?\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the Republican National Convention sent out this email today:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>STATEMENT FROM 2008 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SPOKESMAN MATT BURNS ON SEN. OBAMA&#8217;S VISIT TODAY TO SAINT PAUL, MINN.:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Xcel Energy Center hasn&#8217;t hosted anyone who skates and flips as much as Senator Obama since the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were in town and the Minnesota Wild were eliminated from the hockey playoffs. We look forward to Senator McCain&#8217;s visit to Saint Paul in September, where he will accept our party&#8217;s nomination and offer a more substantive vision for leading America forward than the spectacle witnessed tonight.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does Joe Kimball hate dissent? [*]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[*] Hyperbole borrowed from leftyblogs by professional hyperbole wrangler.\u00a0 Do not attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kimball in the MNPost apparently has been taking a hit off of Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s bong. He apparently thinks that Minnesota Republicans should\u00a0\u00a0bend over and ask Senator Obama where he&#8217;s like us to kiss him: So much for Monday&#8217;s GOP &#8216;welcome&#8217; of Obama to St. Paul &#8230; Not wanting the Democrats to get all the [&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-2659","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\/2659","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=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}