{"id":1041,"date":"2004-07-29T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T17:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2004-07-29T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T17:40:32","slug":"al-sharpton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/07\/29\/al-sharpton\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Sharpton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002546\"><\/a>The Reverend Al Sharpton, evidentally speaking beyond his prepared speech:<\/p>\n<p><i>. \u201cThey promised us 40 acres and a mule. We waited and nothing happened. The fact of the matter is, Mr. Bush, we waited around with the Republican Party through Herbert Hoover. Still didn\u2019t get the 40 acres. Didn\u2019t even get the mule. So we decided we\u2019d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Al Sharpton, through the primary season, was big on the donkey reference, vowing to &#8220;slap the donkey&#8221; or &#8220;whip the donkey&#8221;, etc.  The mental picture of Al Sharpton &#8220;slapping the donkey&#8221; was never terribly pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>(My favourite Shartponism, seemingly a jab at Lieberman, talking to Wesley Clark: <i>&#8220;And don\u2019t be defensive about just joining the party. Welcome to the party. It\u2019s better to be a new Democrat that\u2019s a real Democrat, than a lot of old Democrats up here that have been acting like Republicans all along.&#8221; <\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reverend Al Sharpton, evidentally speaking beyond his prepared speech: . \u201cThey promised us 40 acres and a mule. We waited and nothing happened. The fact of the matter is, Mr. Bush, we waited around with the Republican Party through Herbert Hoover. Still didn\u2019t get the 40 acres. Didn\u2019t even get the mule. So we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","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=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}