{"id":948,"date":"2003-12-12T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/no-shame-in-being-progressive-or-liberal\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T18:21:57","slug":"no-shame-in-being-progressive-or-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-shame-in-being-progressive-or-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"No Shame in being Progressive or Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sharpton implores Dems to return to their liberal roots \/ 'Stop apologizing,' presidential hopeful says in S.F. speech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/12\/12\/MNG2G3LO7G1.DTL\">Sharpton implores Dems to return to their liberal roots \/ &#8216;Stop apologizing,&#8217; presidential hopeful says in S.F. speech<\/a> John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writer <\/p>\n<p>The 2000 election, which was decided when the Supreme Court ruled against Democrat Al Gore in <b>the Florida recount, &#8221;was the undermining of democracy itself,&#8221;<\/b> [Al Sharpton] said. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, Sharpton added, <b>&#8221;there&#8217;s been a nonmilitary civil war led by the right-wing,&#8221;<\/b> including efforts to put in a new, pro-Republican redistricting plan in Texas [and Colorado] and the successful recall of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. <\/p>\n<p>Now the Bush administration has put together a &#8220;no dissent&#8221; policy when it comes to the war in Iraq or the war against terrorism. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re called unpatriotic if we question (the war in Iraq),&#8221; he said. &#8220;(But) we&#8217;re unpatriotic if we don&#8217;t question it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpton implores Dems to return to their liberal roots \/ &#8216;Stop apologizing,&#8217; presidential hopeful says in S.F. speech John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writer The 2000 election, which was decided when the Supreme Court ruled against Democrat Al Gore in the Florida recount, &#8221;was the undermining of democracy itself,&#8221; [Al Sharpton] said. Since then, Sharpton added, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-shame-in-being-progressive-or-liberal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Shame in being Progressive or Liberal<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}