{"id":6794,"date":"2009-01-07T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2009-01-07T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:38:04","slug":"irony-laden-quote-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6794","title":{"rendered":"Irony-Laden Quote of the Moment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gMpTmr96V5hKIfyHT4Av4jsVQgrQD95HVC700\">Said Norm Coleman<\/a>, as he announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/37148069.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU\"\">his election contest<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/NormColeman_VowsToChallenge_010709_medium.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;<b>Democracy is not a machine.<\/b> Sometimes it&#8217;s messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the first objective, fairness is.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>He also added, as if he was serious, &#8220;We are filing this contest to make absolutely sure every valid vote was counted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sore-loser Coleman, who refuses to move on, was explaining his tin-foil hat conspiracy theories of a stolen election to reporters and cry-baby supporters, as he made the sour-grapes comments which threaten democracy, as quoted above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Said Norm Coleman, as he announced<\/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":[396,122,219],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-franken","category-election-2008","category-minnesota"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794","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=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}