{"id":3546,"date":"2008-10-26T10:52:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T15:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2008-10-26T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T15:52:38","slug":"faint-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"Faint Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/33243874.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU\">endroses\u00a0Norm Coleman for Senate<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for all the wrong reasons (emphases added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Independent judgment, exercised on behalf of the best interests of the country and state, is what we hope to see from our U.S. senators. With that hope in mind, this newspaper recommends the reelection of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>The more independent, pragmatic Coleman emerged when he helped speed <strong>money to Minneapolis<\/strong> for a new Interstate 35W bridge; when he promoted tax credits for renewable energy investment; when he pushed for <strong>larger Pell Grants<\/strong> for needy college students; when he <strong>stood up to President Bush<\/strong> on extending publicly subsidized health insurance, including MinnesotaCare, to more poor children and their parents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, &#8220;we endorse Coleman over a plainly-unqualified Al Franken and vacuous irrelevancy Dean Barkley for reasons Lori Sturdevant would approve of&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Endorsements don&#8217;t carry that much weight; with reasoning like this one, it&#8217;s no wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Which doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t support Coleman:\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 He&#8217;s clearly the best man for the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any port in a storm, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib endroses\u00a0Norm Coleman for Senate&#8230; &#8230;for all the wrong reasons (emphases added): Independent judgment, exercised on behalf of the best interests of the country and state, is what we hope to see from our U.S. senators. With that hope in mind, this newspaper recommends the reelection of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. The more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","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=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}