{"id":1496,"date":"2004-07-29T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/07\/29\/republicans-barely-get-mentioned\/"},"modified":"2004-07-29T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T03:30:07","slug":"republicans-barely-get-mentioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/07\/29\/republicans-barely-get-mentioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans barely get mentioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a454'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s lines like this that get the crowd going but which also exemplify the tone of the convention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now I know there are those who criticize me for seeing<br \/>\ncomplexities &#8211; and I do &#8211; because some issues just aren&#8217;t all that<br \/>\nsimple.&nbsp; Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t make it so. Saying we can fight a war on the cheap doesn&#8217;t make<br \/>\nit so. And proclaiming mission accomplished certainly doesn&#8217;t make it<br \/>\nso.<\/p>\n<p>And as President, I will bring back this nation&#8217;s time-honored<br \/>\ntradition: the United States of America never goes to war because we<br \/>\nwant to, we only go to war because we have to.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republicans are never mentioned directly.&nbsp; The focus is on the<br \/>\nparticular policies of the current administration, speaking of the<br \/>\nproblems the Democrats see with the Bush presidency only by saying how<br \/>\nKerry will do things differently.&nbsp; What I mean is that he lays out<br \/>\nwhat he will do in terms such that it&#8217;s clear what the problems of the<br \/>\n&#8220;other side&#8221; are, but only by their explicit absence.<\/p>\n<p>Stong lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And we will end the backdoor draft of National Guard and reservists.<\/p>\n<p>To all who serve in our armed forces today, I say, help is on the way.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think we&#8217;ll see much more of &#8220;backdoor draft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s lines like this that get the crowd going but which also exemplify the tone of the convention: Now I know there are those who criticize me for seeing complexities &#8211; and I do &#8211; because some issues just aren&#8217;t all that simple.&nbsp; Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn&#8217;t make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[661],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deeencee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-o8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}