{"id":149,"date":"2004-07-06T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T18:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-07-06T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T18:27:43","slug":"this-is-how-the-gop-judges-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/06\/this-is-how-the-gop-judges-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how the GOP judges a man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/RNCResearch\/Read.aspx?id=4345\">From the GOP&#8217;s site:<\/a> (I wish I was making this up.)<\/p>\n<p><I>Edwards Has \u00d2Never Done Any Serious Farming.\u00d3<\/p>\n<p>Edwards Doesn\u00d5t Follow Weekly NASCAR Races, Adds He \u00d2Doesn\u00d5t Follow Anything Except Politicking.\u00d3<\/p>\n<p>Edwards Hasn\u00d5t Hunted Or Fished \u00d2In Years.\u00d3<\/p>\n<p>Edwards Has \u00d2In The Past Been A Country Music Fan.\u00d3 (Tim Funk, \u00d2Q&#038;A With John Edwards,\u00d3 The Charlotte Observer, 5\/26\/03)<\/p>\n<p>Edwards Can\u00d5t Even Remember Make Or Model Of His Own Truck. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <\/p>\n<p>Edwards Thought \u00d2It\u00d5s An Enormous Mistake To Fly [The Confederate] Flag [On The Capitol Grounds In South Carolina], And It Ought To Be Taken Down.\u00d3 (MSNBC\u00d5s \u00d2Hardball,\u00d3 2\/6\/03)<\/p>\n<p>Edwards Said His View On The Confederate Flag Is Based On \u00d2Having Grown Up In The South\u00c9[And] Having Seen The Affect That Flag Can Have On A Huge Chunk Of Our People In This Country, Particularly African Americans. I Think It\u00d5s An Enormous Mistake To Fly That Flag\u00c9.\u00d3 (MSNBC\u00d5s \u00d2Hardball,\u00d3 2\/6\/03)<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the GOP&#8217;s site: (I wish I was making this up.) Edwards Has \u00d2Never Done Any Serious Farming.\u00d3 Edwards Doesn\u00d5t Follow Weekly NASCAR Races, Adds He \u00d2Doesn\u00d5t Follow Anything Except Politicking.\u00d3 Edwards Hasn\u00d5t Hunted Or Fished \u00d2In Years.\u00d3 Edwards Has \u00d2In The Past Been A Country Music Fan.\u00d3 (Tim Funk, \u00d2Q&#038;A With John Edwards,\u00d3 The Charlotte Observer, 5\/26\/03) Edwards Can\u00d5t Even Remember Make Or Model Of His Own Truck. . . . Edwards Thought \u00d2It\u00d5s An Enormous Mistake To Fly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-politics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}