{"id":859,"date":"2004-09-11T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=859"},"modified":"2004-09-11T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2004-09-11T12:31:09","slug":"sometimes-i-dont-get-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/859","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I don&#8217;t get Democrats."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Cheney gets up there and basically says, &#8220;If you elect John Kerry we&#8217;re going to be attacked by terrorists.&#8221;  (What he actually said was more vague, closer to &#8220;If this country makes the wrong decision in November, we&#8217;re more likely to be attacked by terrorists&#8221;, but what he <i>meant<\/i> was pretty clear.)  And today the Republican party is having a field day with our dead, capitalizing off the 9\/11 tragedy and waving it around like a banner for their election campaign.  This is just flat-out nauseating in and of itself, but what I <i>really<\/i> don&#8217;t understand is why some Democrats don&#8217;t get up there and simply say, &#8220;This happened on your watch.  <b>This administration failed to defend America from Al-Qaeda, and continues to do so.  Osama bin Laden is still at large, the 9\/11 tragedy occurred while on the Republican watch, and if Bush hadn&#8217;t been asleep at the wheel over 3,000 Americans would still be alive today.<\/b>&#8221;<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t get it.  I <i>just don&#8217;t get it.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Cheney gets up there and basically says, &#8220;If you elect John Kerry we&#8217;re going to be attacked by terrorists.&#8221; (What he actually said was more vague, closer to &#8220;If this country makes the wrong decision in November, we&#8217;re more likely to be attacked by terrorists&#8221;, but what he meant was pretty clear.) And today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-dR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}