{"id":393,"date":"2004-09-02T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/zell-miller-is-not-a-democrat\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T18:05:43","slug":"zell-miller-is-not-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/zell-miller-is-not-a-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Zell Miller is NOT a \r\n\r\nDemocrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Text of Zell Miller's Speech at RNC\" \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/news\/politics\/200409\/POL20040902d.shtml\">Text of Zell Miller&#8217;s Speech at RNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[O]ur nation is being <\/p>\n<p>torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat&#8217;s manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For it has been said <\/p>\n<p>so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who <\/p>\n<p>has given us freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.<\/p>\n<p>It is the soldier who <\/p>\n<p>salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn <\/p>\n<p>that flag. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Reeves had the best response to this BUllSHit months ago. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"\" \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.uexpress.com\/printable\/print.html?uc_full_date=20011207&amp;uc_comic=rr\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, the attorney general of the United <\/p>\n<p>States tells me: &#8220;To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid <\/p>\n<p>terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Well, screw you, buddy!<\/b> What are you trying to say? Are you saying that anyone who talks about civil rights, civil <\/p>\n<p>liberties and the freedom that makes us Americans is a traitor in this undeclared but loudly proclaimed war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text of Zell Miller&#8217;s Speech at RNC [O]ur nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat&#8217;s manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief. &#8230; For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/zell-miller-is-not-a-democrat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zell Miller is NOT a <\/p>\n<p>Democrat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}