{"id":2499,"date":"2008-05-04T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/well-put\/"},"modified":"2008-05-04T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:27:48","slug":"well-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/well-put\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Put"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mine\"><em>It&#8217;s too bad Huckabee is *dangerously* religious. peace, <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/04\/30\/america\/NA-POL-US-Huckabee-Obama-Pastor.php\">Huckabee says Obama&#8217;s former pastor needs him to lose &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His (Obama&#8217;s) campaign is not being derailed by his race, it&#8217;s being derailed by a person who doesn&#8217;t want him to prove that we have made great advances in this country,&#8221; Huckabee told reporters.  <\/p>\n<p>Wright has claimed AIDS was created by the U.S. government to kill &#8220;people of color&#8221; and that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were spurred by the United State&#8217;s &#8220;terrorism&#8221; against minorities at home and abroad.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Jeremiah Wright needs for Obama to lose so he can justify his anger, his hostile bitterness against the United States of America,&#8221; Huckabee said.<\/strong> [mjh: Therefore, Vote for Obama!]  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/shared-blogs\/ajc\/politicalinsider\/entries\/2008\/03\/21\/huckabee_on_obama_wright_cut_s.html\">Huckabee on Obama, Wright: &#8216;Cut some slack to people who grew up on the back of the bus&#8217; | Political Insider<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAs easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say \u2018That\u2019s a terrible statement\u2019 \u2014 I grew up in a very segregated South.<\/i>  <\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAnd I think that you have to cut some slack \u2014 and I\u2019m going to be probably the only conservative in America who\u2019s going to say something like this, but I\u2019m just telling you \u2014 we\u2019ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie, you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant, you can\u2019t sit out there with everyone else. There\u2019s a separate waiting room in the doctor\u2019s office. Here\u2019s where you sit on the bus.<\/i>  <\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAnd you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment, and you have to just say, \u2018I probably would, too.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s too bad Huckabee is *dangerously* religious. peace, mjh Huckabee says Obama&#8217;s former pastor needs him to lose &#8211; International Herald Tribune &#8220;His (Obama&#8217;s) campaign is not being derailed by his race, it&#8217;s being derailed by a person who doesn&#8217;t want him to prove that we have made great advances in this country,&#8221; Huckabee told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/well-put\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well Put<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}