{"id":4189,"date":"2007-02-25T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T22:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2007-02-25T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T22:56:16","slug":"sunday-democrat-toons-of-the-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4189","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Democ<u>RAT<\/u> Toons of the Moments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candorville.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/25\/democrat\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Candorville_022507_sample.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/doonesbury\/2007\/02\/25\/\"><em>Doonesebury<\/em><\/a> and our friend Darrin Bell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candorville.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/25\/democrat\/\"><em>Candorville<\/em><\/a> take on the &#8220;DemocRAT&#8221; issue in today&#8217;s Sunday strips.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Bell has turned blogger at his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Candorville.com\">www.Candorville.com<\/a> site and has been providing additional commentary about his various strips. Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candorville.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/25\/democrat\/\">he writes<\/a>, in part, as a companion to his Sunday toon that though George W. Bush refers to it as the &#8220;Democ<b>rat<\/b> Party&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">An alternative view is that it&#8217;s called the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party itself takes this view, and many nonpartisan authorities agree.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. &#8220;Democrat Party&#8221;\u009d is a slur, or intended to be&#8221;\u201da handy way to express contempt.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[N]o doubt there are plenty of others who say &#8220;Democrat Party&#8221;\u009d just to needle the other side while signaling solidarity with their own&#8221;\u201dthe partisan equivalent of flashing a gang sign.<\/div>\n<p><em>Both strips follow in full&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/doonesbury\/2007\/02\/25\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Doonesbury_022507a.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/doonesbury\/2007\/02\/25\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Doonesbury_022507b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candorville.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/25\/democrat\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Candorville_022507.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Doonesebury and our friend Darrin Bell&#8217;s Candorville take on the &#8220;DemocRAT&#8221; issue in today&#8217;s Sunday strips. In addition, Bell has turned blogger at his www.Candorville.com site and has been providing additional commentary about his various strips. Today he writes, in part, as a companion to his Sunday toon that though George W. Bush refers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toons","bb-type-toon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}