{"id":194889,"date":"2008-08-11T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/11\/wanker-of-the-day-bob-kerrey\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T22:32:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-bob-kerrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/11\/wanker-of-the-day-bob-kerrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day: Bob Kerrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

And not just because he spoke for Attribution on a Politico dot com concern troll piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that Obama was going to win in a blowout was always preposterous,\u201d says former Nebraska senator and onetime presidential hopeful Bob Kerrey, an Obama backer. \u201cA big piece of this, of course, is whether white people are going to support a black guy. … If [Obama] is a tall, skinny white guy named Paul Jones, it’s a different story.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn McCain is a known quantity,\u201d says Bob Kerrey, who thinks Obama will ultimately prevail. \u201cYou don’t look at John and say, \u2018Who the heck is he?\u2019. He’s a veteran, he’s a guy who got pretty banged up in Vietnam. He can deal with crisis. There’s some uncertainty about Senator Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\u201cFairly or not, folks think he\u2019s pretty liberal and nobody wants a pair of Pelosis running things,\u201d says a New York-based Democratic consultant.<\/p>\n

Adds Bob Kerrey: \u201cThe country’s still pretty divided \u2026 people may want a divided government. They want change, but I’m not sure that the Democratic agenda has the support of a majority of Americans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can we trade this “<\/span>mother SHUT YOUR MOUTH!<\/span>“<\/span>*<\/sup> to the Repubicans?<\/p>\n

Seriously, he’s almost as bad as Lieberman.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>In memoriam of Isaac Hayes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And not just because he spoke for Attribution on a Politico dot com concern troll piece: \u201cThe idea that Obama was going to win in a blowout was always preposterous,\u201d says former Nebraska senator and onetime presidential hopeful Bob Kerrey, an Obama backer. \u201cA big piece of this, of course, is whether white people are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,977,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-presidential-campaign","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194889"}],"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=194889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}