{"id":667,"date":"2004-10-02T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2004-10-02T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T23:46:10","slug":"think-john-edwards-is-a-lightweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Think John Edwards is a Lightweight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/EdwardsOhio.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I realize it&#8217;s somewhat &#8220;off-message&#8221; to <i>raise<\/i> expectations for this Tuesday&#8217;s Veep Debate in St. Louis, but I try to call &#8217;em as I see &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>While the Lamestream Media has been carrying the water for the Right by echoing the &#8220;Where&#8217;s John Edwards?&#8221; mantra of late, the fact is Edwards has been out there campaigning every day. But the Media has chosen to show pictures of John Kerry&#8217;s tan, Dick Cheney&#8217;s smarm and George W. Bush&#8217;s misleading ads instead.<\/p>\n<p>I had the good fortune to tune into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000624.htm\">ABC News Now<\/a> last night (this morning) at around 4am where they were carrying a John Edwards rally in Ohio uncut and unedited. And lemme tell ya, it was a <i>stemwinder<\/i>! Edwards had the facts down hard and the crowd leaping to their feet every three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who thinks Edwards&#8217; is an empty suit with nice teeth is likely gonna be in for yet <i>another<\/i> surprise this Tuesday. He absolutely knocked the cover off the ball in that rally.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I was unable to find a link to the video of rally over at C-SPAN. If anyone has it, feel free to share.<\/p>\n<p>(<b>REMINDER:<\/b> Once again we&#8217;ll be having an Open Thread here during the debate on Tuesday! Please join us to toss in your play-by-play impressions during the big show!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize it&#8217;s somewhat &#8220;off-message&#8221; to raise expectations for this Tuesday&#8217;s Veep Debate in St. Louis, but I try to call &#8217;em as I see &#8217;em. While the Lamestream Media has been carrying the water for the Right by echoing the &#8220;Where&#8217;s John Edwards?&#8221; mantra of late, the fact is Edwards has been out there [&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":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}