{"id":6070,"date":"2005-02-24T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/02\/24\/howard-dean-reaching-out\/"},"modified":"2005-02-24T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T14:35:31","slug":"howard-dean-reaching-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/02\/howard-dean-reaching-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Dean reaching out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Howard Dean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellsun.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2005\/02\/24\/421d84959299b\">speaking at Cornell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that the Democrats think that women should be able to make up their own mind about what kind of health care they have,&quot; Dean said on abortion rights. He argued that many women who perceived themselves to be pro-life were actually pro-choice: they believed abortion to be immoral but would not be willing to dictate what other women should do in those situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Dean also said that &quot;Bush&#8217;s cronies&quot; managed to pass anti-gay marriage legislation in 11 states during the last election in order to &quot;scapegoat a minority for the purpose of getting elected and that&#8217;s not courage. That&#8217;s not leadership, and those people don&#8217;t belong running the United States of America.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">So now Howard Dean is trying to frame pro-life voters as &quot;personally opposed.&quot; It is bad enough when politicians use this dodge and to assign to this to pro-lifers just to make it seem that you are on the same side is even worse. This is of course why they love the phrase pro-choice because it can mean both anything and nothing at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">The charge of &quot;Bush&#8217;s cronies&quot; passing anti-gay marriage legislation is just as silly, especially since a higher percentage of people voted for the gay marriage ban than voted for Bush. So I guess there must be a lot of &quot;Bush&#8217;s cronies&quot; that voted for John Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Dean speaking at Cornell: &quot;The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that the Democrats think that women should be able to make up their own mind about what kind&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}