{"id":346,"date":"2005-04-28T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2005\/04\/28\/hats-off-to-al-gore\/"},"modified":"2005-04-28T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T23:26:25","slug":"hats-off-to-al-gore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2005\/04\/28\/hats-off-to-al-gore\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats Off to Al Gore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a235'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIronically, a Republican freshman Senator who supports the party-line opposition to the filibuster here at home, recently returned from Iraq with an inspiring story about the formation of multi-ethnic democracy there. Reporting that he asked a Kurdish leader there if he worried that the majority Shiites would &#8220;overrun&#8221; the minority Kurds, this Senator said the Kurdish leader responded &#8220;oh no, we have a secret weapon&#8230;. [the] filibuster.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Al Gore<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever your political stance, whether you voted for him or not, Al Gore deserves enormous praise for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2005\/04\/27\/al_gore\/index.html\">his latest speech<\/a>. This speech is, in my mind, the essence of what this country stands for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ironically, a Republican freshman Senator who supports the party-line opposition to the filibuster here at home, recently returned from Iraq with an inspiring story about the formation of multi-ethnic democracy there. Reporting that he asked a Kurdish leader there if he worried that the majority Shiites would &#8220;overrun&#8221; the minority Kurds, this Senator said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}