{"id":65363,"date":"2017-12-07T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65363"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:29:08","slug":"where-credit-is-due-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65363","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit Is Due!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world wonders what&#8217;s going to happen with Al Franken &#8211; after 33 Senators call for his stepping down &#8211; one must give credit where it&#8217;s due.<\/p>\n<p>So a big, unreserved salute to two Minnesota profiles in courage &#8211; two women who stepped out against the wind in their own party to stand up for\u00a0<em>all women<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos and salutes to Senator Amy Klobuchar:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65365\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/A-Klo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65365\" class=\"wp-image-65365 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/A-Klo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/A-Klo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/A-Klo-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/A-Klo.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Klobuchar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And to titan of industry and budding perennial candidate Angie Craig:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65364\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AngieCraigMNPOL153_102916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65364\" class=\"wp-image-65364 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AngieCraigMNPOL153_102916-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AngieCraigMNPOL153_102916-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AngieCraigMNPOL153_102916-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AngieCraigMNPOL153_102916-1024x684.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AngieCraigMNPOL153_102916-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angie Craig<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These two women took a decisive stand against the ofay objectification of women with their unstinting demand for integrity on the part of Senator Franken and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>No mean feat, this &#8211; swimming against the current that believes, all but officially, that their ends justify their means; that a rapist who &#8220;protects abortion&#8221; is a better person than the pro-lifer with scrupulous integrity.<\/p>\n<p>And so I salute you, Senator Klobuchar and Angie Craig!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What?\u00a0 \u00a0DFL women standing up for\u00a0<em>individual\u00a0<\/em>women, as opposed to Progressive Women as a Collective?\u00a0 \u00a0 Complete baked monkey doodle?<\/p>\n<p>I know, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world wonders what&#8217;s going to happen with Al Franken &#8211; after 33 Senators call for his stepping down &#8211; one must give credit where it&#8217;s due. So a big, unreserved salute to two Minnesota profiles in courage &#8211; two women who stepped out against the wind in their own party to stand up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,320,18,387],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-65363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-mndfl","category-pc","category-the-sexual-cultural-revolution","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363","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=65363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65366,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363\/revisions\/65366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}