{"id":10024,"date":"2012-05-25T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10024"},"modified":"2012-05-25T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:34:22","slug":"in-defense-of-buddy-roemer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/05\/25\/in-defense-of-buddy-roemer\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of Buddy Roemer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting couple of comments that aim to set the record straight and peg Buddy Roemer’s reputation downward.\u00c2\u00a0 See here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note something like this:
\nHe was one of the worst governors in Louisiana history. He could not get along with people, put together a competent staff, or pass legislation. He did not work hard and had no ability to govern. Read this history of LA governors, pages 259-268:<\/em><\/p>\n

And on to:
\nAs a LA commentator quipped, in bayou style:<\/em>
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Buddy Roemer, who has been out of politics for 19 years, couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win an election as a dogcatcher in Louisiana, much less the Presidency of the United States.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

All right.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t care enough to shift about and figure out what my opinion of Buddy Roemer is, and I certainly do not think much of the Americans Elect concept that he attached himself to this last election.\u00c2\u00a0 But I have one thought to say about Buddy Roemer.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever his faults as governor, or a politician, however off-base and self- congratulatory his message, whatever his level of effectiveness as governor…<\/p>\n

His predecessor and successor was Edwin Edwards, and the man who beat him out was David Duke.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you have to judge a politician by not any real ideals, but by who he is standing next to.\u00c2\u00a0 And while I guess you can say that there was obviously something wrong with him in getting to the public that he was beaten by those two men, nonetheless in grading off a curve, he may just well be seated into the Louisiana Governors Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting couple of comments that aim to set the record straight and peg Buddy Roemer’s reputation downward.\u00c2\u00a0 See here. Note something like this: He was one of the worst governors in Louisiana history. He could not get along with people, put together a competent staff, or pass legislation. He did not work hard and had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}