{"id":8815,"date":"2002-10-30T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T22:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/30\/shame-shame-shame\/"},"modified":"2002-10-30T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2002-10-30T22:37:17","slug":"shame-shame-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/shame-shame-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame, Shame, Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>In a bizarre plea to<br \/>\nthe GOP to forfeit the race for Paul Wellstone&#8217;s Senate seat, a Wellstone family<br \/>\nfriend told the memorial service for the late liberal Tuesday night that both<br \/>\nlocal and national Republicans owed it to Wellstone to abandon their support for<br \/>\nhis GOP opponent, Norm Coleman, as a tribute to the dead senator&#8217;s<br \/>\nmemory.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;Can we not set aside for just one week all of the<br \/>\npartisan bickering, all of the political strategy and all of the nastiness,&#8221;<br \/>\nRick Kahn told the crowd gathered at the University of Minnesota&#8217;s Williams<br \/>\nArena. &#8220;So that we may come together as a people in deepest mourning to<br \/>\ncelebrate and truly honor his memory.&#8221; <\/font>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002\/10\/30\/92635\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>] [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/021030\/168\/2k504.html\">Clinton<br \/>\nand Mondale<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Is this the same political party that castigated the GOP<br \/>\nfor selling a picture of the President in Air Force One on 9-11? This is a new<br \/>\nlow and I thought I was pretty cynical where the current Democratic party is<br \/>\nconcerned, but I wouldn&#8217;t have expected this of them. The picture of Bill<br \/>\nClinton reminds me of him at Ron Brown&#8217;s funeral. He was laughing it up and when<br \/>\nhe noticed that the cameras had turned on him he instantly wiped his eye and<br \/>\nshed a tear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bizarre plea to the GOP to forfeit the race for Paul Wellstone&#8217;s Senate seat, a Wellstone family friend told the memorial service for the late liberal Tuesday night&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}