{"id":813,"date":"2007-05-15T03:05:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T09:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/14\/suicide-watch\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T18:54:01","slug":"suicide-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

We MOB bloggers have been dinging on Susan Lenfestey for years, now; she’s got a place of (heh heh) honor<\/a> in my pandaemon of frequent fisking targets.<\/p>\n

But I’m starting to worry about here.\u00a0 I’m not going to fisk anything; just show it.<\/p>\n

Remember – it’s her “Mother’s Day” column, a “letter” to the President:<\/p>\n

…I realize this is of no interest to you…and yet, you are the only one who can make my day…We’ve never made a big fuss over Mother’s Day at our house…This year I want my children to share with me the gift of hope — in their futures, in their children’s futures. And that’s where you come in…Mr. President, so we were lucky to grow up in the glory years…We grew up believing that we were the greatest, kindest nation in the world…Yes, we also saw our heroes — well, mine anyway, Jack and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. — murdered right in front of our eyes….we watched our classmates die in a terrible mistake of a war and vowed never again…through our self-indulgence, shortsightedness or greed, we’ve pretty much trashed things for those who follow…I am asking you to decide to give us hope, because our children are having a hard time finding much of it…For six years you’ve given us fear, and it’s taken a toll…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One wonders how she even finds the strength to wake up in the morning.<\/p>\n

If you know Sue Lenfestey – wife of yet another ultra-liberal former Strib editor – render assistance.\u00a0 Between columns like this and her ongoing venting of unrequited bile<\/font><\/a>, she could apparently use a shoulder to cry on.<\/p>\n

Or something.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We MOB bloggers have been dinging on Susan Lenfestey for years, now; she’s got a place of (heh heh) honor in my pandaemon of frequent fisking targets. But I’m starting to worry about here.\u00a0 I’m not going to fisk anything; just show it. Remember – it’s her “Mother’s Day” column, a “letter” to the President: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}