{"id":2028,"date":"2008-11-14T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2008-11-14T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T23:37:00","slug":"three-comments-on-todays-anonymous-liberal-sources-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"Three comments on today&#8217;s &quot;anonymous Liberal sources&quot; story&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. <em>Bob Rae&#8217;s strategy to win the Liberal leadership is to focus on the economy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s either a really dumb move or a counter-intuitive master stroke of brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>2. <em>\u201cBob doesn&#8217;t feel <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">overmatched<\/span>,\u201d said the strategist, who asked not to be identified.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jane, could you not find <em>one Liberal<\/em> willing to make this bold claim <u>on the record<\/u>? I mean, if we&#8217;re just going to get campaign talking points, do we really need to cloak them behind the veil of &#8220;anonymous sources&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>3. <em>In the 2006 leadership, when Mr. Rae placed third behind Mr. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Ignatieff<\/span> and Mr. Dion, Mr. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Ignatieff<\/span> had the support of the majority of Quebec delegates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>39% is not a majority. (<em>except occasionally in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">FPTP<\/span>&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Bob Rae&#8217;s strategy to win the Liberal leadership is to focus on the economy That&#8217;s either a really dumb move or a counter-intuitive master stroke of brilliance. 2. \u201cBob doesn&#8217;t feel overmatched,\u201d said the strategist, who asked not to be identified. Jane, could you not find one Liberal willing to make this bold claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}