{"id":14828,"date":"2008-03-08T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T18:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14828.html"},"modified":"2008-03-08T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T18:40:35","slug":"cnn-finds-an-illinois-republican-whos-unimpressed-with-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cnn-finds-an-illinois-republican-whos-unimpressed-with-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN finds an Illinois Republican who&#8217;s unimpressed with Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14799.html\">CNN ran<\/a> an online feature that asked, &#8220;Can Cindy McCain really be that perfect?&#8221; Today, the lead item on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/POLITICS\/index.html\">CNN&#8217;s Politics page<\/a> shows this headline, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/03\/07\/obama.fact.check\/index.html\">Fellow legislator saw little &#8216;bold&#8217; about Obama<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[F]ormer Republican colleague Dan Cronin said the presidential candidate&#8217;s campaign of bold change doesn&#8217;t square with his past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were no bold solutions; there were no creative approaches; there were no efforts to stand up to the establishment,&#8221; said Cronin, a member of the Illinois General Assembly since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Cronin says he still respects Obama and his political skills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, let me get this straight. CNN believes the lead political story of the day is a former Republican state lawmaker who was unimpressed with a former Democratic state lawmaker? During the latter&#8217;s presidential campaign?<\/p>\n<p>As Greg Sargent <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/03\/newsflash_republican_says_bad.php\">put it<\/a>, &#8220;Just Godawful. Kind of funny to think that someone actually signed off on this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking that quite a bit lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days ago, CNN ran an online feature that asked, &#8220;Can Cindy McCain really be that perfect?&#8221; Today, the lead item on CNN&#8217;s Politics page shows this headline, &#8220;Fellow legislator saw little &#8216;bold&#8217; about Obama.&#8221; [F]ormer Republican colleague Dan Cronin said the presidential candidate&#8217;s campaign of bold change doesn&#8217;t square with his past. &#8220;There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}