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There are a number of reasons:<\/p>\n* It was anti-Jewish. Specifically his slam of “elitist wing of the Democratic Party, or what I refer to as the “Metropolitan Opera Wing”.” is specifically a call to Jew Baiting.<\/p>\n
* It was homophobic.<\/p>\n
* It was racist, or at least it used racist code words.<\/p>\n
I’m not of any particular importance. I have a blog with (perhaps) 100 readers a day (no I did not drop a few 0s, we are talking Z-list blogger).<\/p>\n
I was a precinct captain for Howard Dean in 2004, but obviously the campaign was suspended before the Maryland primary.<\/p>\n
I am given to understand that he is an adviser to your campaign.<\/p>\n
I have not yet made a decision on which candidate to endorse, but you are currently the candidate I favor.<\/p>\n
I will be making an endorsement before the Iowa caucuses (that and $2.50 will get you a Starbucks).<\/p>\n
I am not suggesting that you separate Mr Saunders from your campaign.<\/p>\n
However, SOMEONE should tell him that he needs to think before he talks.<\/p>\n
I understand that sometimes consultants are tempted to sell themselves too much, and I believe that this is what happened here.<\/p>\n
This campaign needs to be about John Edwards, not Dave “Mudcat” Saunders.<\/p>\n
I would suggest that he apologize. It should be heartfelt, not a phony “I’m sorry if I offended anyone” apology, and it should be made clear to him that he needs to give his advice in private in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I meant what I said. I am leaning toward his candidacy, and I want an apology from Mr. Sanders. A real one, not a phony “I’m sorry if I offended anyone” apology. The text (pasted into their web form): I recently read Dave “Mudcat” Sanders’ blog on time, and I am profoundly concerned by what …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199999"}],"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=199999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}