{"id":1668,"date":"2004-04-29T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T14:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1668.html"},"modified":"2004-04-29T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T14:38:42","slug":"edwards-gets-in-a-good-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/edwards-gets-in-a-good-dig\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards gets in a good dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s give our friend John Edwards the award for Quote of the Day. From this morning&#8217;s Imus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want you to notice that I&#8217;m here by myself. Unlike <i>somebody else<\/i> who is going to be talking later this morning.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: And while I&#8217;m at it, let&#8217;s give the estimable Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), a WWII veteran who appeared on the Senate floor yesterday with a poster showing a chicken in a military uniform, the award for <i>yesterday&#8217;s<\/i> Quote of the Day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Chickenhawks: they shriek like a hawk but they have the backbone of a chicken. We know who the chickenhawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others. When it was their turn to serve, where were they? A-W-O-L, that&#8217;s where. A-W-O-L &#8230; Now the chicken hawks are squawking about Senator Kerry. The lead chicken hawk against Senator Kerry is the vice president.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s give our friend John Edwards the award for Quote of the Day. From this morning&#8217;s Imus: &#8220;I want you to notice that I&#8217;m here by myself. Unlike somebody else who is going to be talking later this morning.&#8221; Update: And while I&#8217;m at it, let&#8217;s give the estimable Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), a WWII [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}