{"id":184255,"date":"2012-06-18T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/18\/quislings\/"},"modified":"2012-06-18T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:10:00","slug":"quislings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/18\/quislings\/","title":{"rendered":"Quislings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of West Virginia &#8220;Democrats&#8221; who qualify as super delegates have announced that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/west-virginias-democratic-governor-distances-himself-from-obama-to-skip-national-convention\/2012\/06\/18\/gJQAolEAmV_story.html\">won&#8217;t be attending the convention because they do not want to be supporting Barack Obama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says he won\u2019t attend the party\u2019s national convention, citing serious problems with President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>A Tomblin spokesman, Chris Stadelman, said Monday that the governor has serious problems with Republican Mitt Romney, too.<\/p>\n<p>Tomblin is an automatic superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention. He says his time is best spent working in West Virginia, not attending the four-day political rally in Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>In West Virginia\u2019s presidential primary, Tomblin refused to say whether he voted for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlbin isn\u2019t alone in sitting this one out \u2014 West Virginia\u2019s Sen. Joe Manchin and congressman Nick Rahall say they don\u2019t plan to attend the convention, either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What they are really saying is that they don&#8217;t want to be seen as supporting Barack Obama, because their voters are from West Virginia, and he&#8217;s a Ni<b>*bong*<\/b>. (<i>Blazing Saddles<\/i> reference)<\/p>\n<p>Wankers.<\/p>\n<p>There is a level of sacrifice to be made by people in leadership positions, and this ain&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that you have to go, but as a person in a leadership position in the party, you don&#8217;t advertise the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of West Virginia &#8220;Democrats&#8221; who qualify as super delegates have announced that they won&#8217;t be attending the convention because they do not want to be supporting Barack Obama: Democratic West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says he won\u2019t attend the party\u2019s national convention, citing serious problems with President Barack Obama. A Tomblin spokesman, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}