{"id":1174,"date":"2008-08-27T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2008-08-27T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:03:18","slug":"so-what-was-that-about-gov-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/27\/so-what-was-that-about-gov-warner\/","title":{"rendered":"So What Was That About, Gov. Warner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw 95% of Mark Warner&#8217;s speech last night, and I have to admit to coming away confused as to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/politics\/july-dec08\/jwwarner_08-26.html\">why he talked up a claim<\/a> &#8220;t<span>hat may not go over too well in a hall full of 18,000 partisan Democrats[.]&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 If it was saying that it going to be what most of his speeches are &#8211; generally uninspiring and constantly reassuring us that he won&#8217;t break out and ask us to do anything hard &#8211; well, okay.\u00c2\u00a0 But it struck me more that he was indulging &#8211; on a national stage &#8211; what Virginia Democrats have a particular talent for doing: running against the same non-existent scary liberal that populates the imaginations of Virginia Republicans.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an ugly enough bit of theatre here in Virginia, and there was no need to bolster the myth when he had national attention.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw 95% of Mark Warner&#8217;s speech last night, and I have to admit to coming away confused as to why he talked up a claim &#8220;that may not go over too well in a hall full of 18,000 partisan Democrats[.]&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 If it was saying that it going to be what most of his speeches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}