{"id":19993,"date":"2020-10-09T17:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=19993"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:40:05","slug":"lieberman-farting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2020\/10\/09\/lieberman-farting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman farting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/survey-results\/daily\/2020\/10\/05\/0a1e1\/2\">Huh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/raphael-warnock-could-very-well-be-the-next-u-s-senato-1845323843\">???<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Many took former Barack Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endorsement of Warnock as a not-so-subtle nod for Lieberman to drop out. (fun fact: Joe, Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dad, made sure to fart in Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face during the healthcare debate that almost threatened to derail it.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When I saw this, I was excited, and curious, and a little puzzled.  I would have thought that I would remember Joseph Biden farting at Barack Obama.  So, I go to the link to see this incident.  No farting mentipned.  A google search of Lieberman and fart, likewise, shows nothing as well.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph.  Lieberman .  Never.  Farted. At.  Barack.  Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The news story is using a colloqualism.  It could say simply, flatly, more simply and stately and journalistically, that there was at times a strained relationship with Obama and Lieberman &#8212; see, for instance, Lieberman speaking at the Republican convention on behalf of John McCain when he was running against him &#8212; which followed through at policy battles during his administration.<\/p>\n<p>But instead what I see here is &#8220;fart&#8221;.  WHY???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huh??? Many took former Barack Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endorsement of Warnock as a not-so-subtle nod for Lieberman to drop out. (fun fact: Joe, Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dad, made sure to fart in Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face during the healthcare debate that almost threatened to derail it.) When I saw this, I was excited, and curious, and a little puzzled. I would [&hellip;]<\/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-19993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993","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=19993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19994,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions\/19994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}