{"id":2458,"date":"2009-10-21T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2009-10-21T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:56:00","slug":"lest-we-forget-about-the-official-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget about the official opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the buzz about Danielle Smith (<em>little known fact: her tears cure leprosy<\/em>), it&#8217;s easy to overlook the Alberta Liberal Party. But the ALP have released a commercial:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m65dDNrBjg8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m65dDNrBjg8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see Smith in the ad since a strong Wildrose Party is the best thing to happen to the ALP in a long time. But just by mentioning her it guarantees that the media, starved for all things Danielle, will report on the ad (which is the main point of an Internet-only ad). And, even though she&#8217;s the &#8220;target&#8221; of the ad, it&#8217;s clearly an attack on Stelmach.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least it should be. My only concern with this is that it comes across as an attack on conservatives in general, rather than on Stelmach and the PCs. I know I&#8217;ve been out of Alberta for a while, but last time I checked, Conservatives were fairly popular there. As is that Harper chap who gets lumped in with Stelmach, Reagan <em>et al<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Stelmach&#8217;s weak on financial management, and the ALP took a shot at him. Good on them for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the buzz about Danielle Smith (little known fact: her tears cure leprosy), it&#8217;s easy to overlook the Alberta Liberal Party. But the ALP have released a commercial: It&#8217;s interesting to see Smith in the ad since a strong Wildrose Party is the best thing to happen to the ALP in a long time. [&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\/2458"}],"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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}