{"id":2850,"date":"2004-09-02T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/miller-time\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T18:40:20","slug":"miller-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/miller-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMichael Barone’s commentary on Zell’s speech<\/a> is worth reading. <\/p>\n

It strikes me that this speech marks a turning point in the campaign. Maybe it’s just the beginning of an examination of Kerry’s Senate record, and maybe it’s more than that, so we’ll see.<\/p>\n

Hollywood Matt Welch was scared by it<\/a>, and the Democratic Party’s response ranges from smearing Miller as everything from a racist<\/a> to a flip-flopper. The racist charge doesn’t hold water and isn’t supported by anything more than Miller’s age and place of origin, and the flip-flopper charge by Miller’s former support of Bill Clinton and some nice words he said about John Kerry’s love for puppies:<\/p>\n

\nAs many of you know, I have great affection ? some might say an obsession ? for my two Labrador retrievers, Gus and Woodrow. It turns out John is a fellow dog lover, too, and he better be. His German Shepherd, Kim, is about to have puppies. And I just want him to know ? Gus and Woodrow had nothing to do with that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pro-puppy myself, so maybe I should re-evaluate Kerry.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Barone’s commentary on Zell’s speech is worth reading. It strikes me that this speech marks a turning point in the campaign. Maybe it’s just the beginning of an examination of Kerry’s Senate record, and maybe it’s more than that, so we’ll see. Hollywood Matt Welch was scared by it, and the Democratic Party’s response … Continue reading “Miller time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-JY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}