{"id":194861,"date":"2008-08-13T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/arkansas-state-democratic-party-chair-shot-and-killed\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:59:00","slug":"arkansas-state-democratic-party-chair-shot-and-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/arkansas-state-democratic-party-chair-shot-and-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas State Democratic Party Chair Shot and Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not claiming a conspiracy, after all, if you were going to do this, you would not choose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/blogs\/arkansasblog\/2008\/08\/capitol_ave_crime_scene.aspx\">someone in Arkansas like Bill Gwatney<\/a>, which is not a likely location for a Republican pickup in Congress or an Obama victory in November.<\/p>\n<p>I will say, however that the tenor of political discourse, with such things as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16498.html%22\">David Boehner calling for Pelosi&#8217;s lynching<\/a> contributes to these events.<\/p>\n<p>With it increasingly looking like Obama will take the White House, there is a growing segment of the Republican base, who believe that God intends them to rule forever, who will be willing, even eager, to use terrorism in furtherance of their cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not claiming a conspiracy, after all, if you were going to do this, you would not choose someone in Arkansas like Bill Gwatney, which is not a likely location for a Republican pickup in Congress or an Obama victory in November. I will say, however that the tenor of political discourse, with such things &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1133,1052,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination","category-crimes","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194861"}],"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=194861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}