{"id":5023,"date":"2005-08-21T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2005-08-21T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T13:13:22","slug":"sunday-discussion-group-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sunday-discussion-group-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the 2004 presidential campaign were decided on campaign songs, Kerry would have won in a landslide. Our guy had Springsteen&#8217;s &#8220;No Surrender&#8221; &#8212; which, not incidentally, Springsteen performed live at several Kerry rallies &#8212; while their guy had &#8220;Still the One,&#8221; which led to rock legend John Hall issuing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views04\/1031-22.htm\">cease and desist order<\/a> against the Bush-Cheney campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, &#8217;04 was a pretty good year for songs, as election cycles go. Edwards used some Mellencamp to reinforce his campaign theme (&#8220;Small Town&#8221;) and Dean had Elvis (why he dropped &#8220;a little less conversation and a little more action&#8221; I have no idea).<\/p>\n<p>If you were advising a campaign, which song would you pick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the 2004 presidential campaign were decided on campaign songs, Kerry would have won in a landslide. Our guy had Springsteen&#8217;s &#8220;No Surrender&#8221; &#8212; which, not incidentally, Springsteen performed live at several Kerry rallies &#8212; while their guy had &#8220;Still the One,&#8221; which led to rock legend John Hall issuing a cease and desist order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","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=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}