{"id":192,"date":"2004-09-03T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=192"},"modified":"2004-09-03T08:19:58","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T13:19:58","slug":"dear-senator-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Dear Senator Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s ABOUT TIME &#8211; thank you, Senator Kerry, for finally engaging the Republican attack machine in your Ohio speech.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt feels like your campaign has been asleep for weeks, allowing Bush and his cronies to have a field day with their usual flood of innuendos and lies.<br \/>\nBush is not an idiot &#8211; he&#8217;s a cunning manipulator, and his handlers are brilliant at appealling to the worst of voters&#8217; prejudices and fears.<br \/>\nTheir slanders and distortions need to be engaged, head-on, with exactly the kind of message you gave last night: Bush is a fraud, a coward and a destroyer of the middle class.  He thumbs his nose at our values.  He would destroy our environment, our Supreme Court and our schools, all for the benefit of his &#8220;base&#8221;, the self-serving wealthy.<br \/>\nPlease keep on message, that George Bush has been a disaster for our country, and that the public deserves a Head of State who is honorable, decent, and respectful of ALL our values, including tolerance for those who are &#8220;different&#8221; and a willingness to develop our rich human resources, regardless of background or class.<br \/>\n(Emailed 5 minutes ago to Senator Kerry&#8217;s campaign website.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s ABOUT TIME &#8211; thank you, Senator Kerry, for finally engaging the Republican attack machine in your Ohio speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}