{"id":188931,"date":"2010-07-07T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/07\/why-arent-the-dems-hammering-this-every-day\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:22:00","slug":"why-arent-the-dems-hammering-this-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/07\/why-arent-the-dems-hammering-this-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren&#8217;t The Dems Hammering This Every Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 384px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"384\" height=\"231\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FW3kTLTV6eU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FW3kTLTV6eU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"384\" height=\"231\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial candidate, and former Governor, Roy Barnes, is now explaining to the voters that wingnut Republicans are more than poor stewards of the public trust, but that they <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/07\/ga-gov-dem-the-rest-of-the-country-is-laughing-at-us----and-its-costing-us-jobs.php\">they are actually an embarrassment to the people, and the state, of Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some text from his ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>It&#8217;s hard for industry to take us seriously when the Legislature attempts to outlaw stem cell research, passes bills about microchips in the brain, and talks about seceding from the Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t bring jobs to Georgia with the rest of the country <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">laughing at us<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An appeal to civic pride, reminding folks that these folks are f%$#ing nuts, and that we should be embarrassed that they win elections, is a simple and easily understood: They are laughing <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">at<\/span>  you, not <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">with<\/span> you because of these clowns.<\/p>\n<p>This is a message that can, and should, be hammered at every day until election day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial candidate, and former Governor, Roy Barnes, is now explaining to the voters that wingnut Republicans are more than poor stewards of the public trust, but that they they are actually an embarrassment to the people, and the state, of Georgia. Some text from his ad: It&#8217;s hard for industry to take us &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,978,1104,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-politics","category-psychology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188931"}],"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=188931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}