{"id":1544,"date":"2003-10-08T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/08\/kerry-accosts-elderly-heckler-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2003-10-08T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2003-10-08T15:41:20","slug":"kerry-accosts-elderly-heckler-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/08\/kerry-accosts-elderly-heckler-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Accosts Elderly Heckler in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

\n from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/td>\n		\n

Interesting report of a confrontation between candidate
\n John Kerry and Arnie Oliviere, an 82-year-old Iowa conservative:<\/em><\/p>\n

“Is this
\n a socialist country or a capitalist one?” asked Olivier, loud enough
\n to
\n startle
\n Kerry and
\n hush
\n the room.
\n “I’m for enlightened
\n capitalism, not robber-baron capitalism,” Kerry said.
\n “You’re favoring the poor over the rich,” Olivier said.
\n “I’m not a class warfare guy,” Kerry said.
\n “It was pretty tense there, and it could have been a fight,” Rolfes said.
\n “I’ve never seen a politician act that calm and composed, make his points
\n like a gentleman.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the Boston Globe Interesting report of a confrontation between candidate John Kerry and Arnie Oliviere, an 82-year-old Iowa conservative: “Is this a socialist country or a capitalist one?” asked Olivier, loud enough to startle Kerry and hush the room. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}