{"id":123,"date":"2004-09-20T11:09:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-09-20T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T15:22:52","slug":"vote-for-kerry-and-the-terrorists-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Kerry, and the terrorists win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really sick and tired of Republicans telling people that if we don&#8217;t do certain things, if we don&#8217;t think a certain way, if we don&#8217;t stick to conservative Republican ideals, then the terrorists win.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/09\/19\/hastert.remark\/index.html\">Now they have gone too far<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a campaign rally Saturday in his Illinois district with Vice President Dick Cheney, [House Speaker Dennis] Hastert said al Qaeda &#8220;would like to influence this election&#8221; with an attack similar to the train bombings in Madrid days before the Spanish national election in March.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked Hastert if he thought al Qaeda would operate with more comfort if Kerry were elected, the speaker said, &#8220;That&#8217;s my opinion, yes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is the kind of discourse that is deemed acceptable in this country now, then the terrorists have already won.  The thought police now have the spectre of &#8220;this is what the terrorists want&#8221; to enforce their agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Dennis Hastert contends that Al-Qaeda wants Kerry to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}