{"id":32830,"date":"2012-11-13T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32830"},"modified":"2012-11-13T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T19:41:15","slug":"can-kerry-unite-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32830","title":{"rendered":"Can Kerry Unite Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things prompted this missive.\u00a0 Of course<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32812\" target=\"_blank\"> Jonn&#8217;s post<\/a> where I made a comment that said in part<em> &#8211;\u00a0 Back in \u201904 Kerry managed to bring disparate groups out of the woodwork to unify in condemning his Presidential run.<\/em> And a reply to that comment from Nik &#8211; <em>That\u2019s a good sign, right? He can get people to work together who might not have otherwise. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I doubt you can find ANY MilBlog that is thrilled with the notion of Kerry as SECDEF, that isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;m trying to address here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Swiftboating&#8221; entered our vocabulary in &#8217;04 following the Kerry Lied Rally in DC.\u00a0 The MSM used it as pejorative while some embraced the term.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is that Kerry&#8217;s effort was stopped then.<\/p>\n<p>The fact of Kerry&#8217;s ascension to public consideration for ANY office higher than those in Massachusetts keep re-electing him for\u00a0 could\/would\/should bring the old Kerry Lied crew back together.<\/p>\n<p>Will this particular resurrection of Kerry be enough to stir up that which needs to be stirred up?<\/p>\n<p>Aside: I am genuinely curious.\u00a0 That Kerry&#8217;s name even CAN be mentioned for a cabinet post has me befuddled. I do hope there is a bright side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things prompted this missive.\u00a0 Of course Jonn&#8217;s post where I made a comment that said &hellip; <a title=\"Can Kerry Unite Us?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32830\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Kerry Unite Us?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-john-kerry","category-blather","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}