{"id":3050,"date":"2011-05-25T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2011-05-25T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:06:00","slug":"raes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3050","title":{"rendered":"Rae&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/rae-of-light.html\">all along<\/a>, this was the obvious choice for interim leader. Rae is a gifted politician, and will keep the party relevent while it rebuilds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ottawa-notebook\/liberals-pick-bob-rae-as-interim-chief\/article2034214\/\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Liberals name Bob Rae interim chief<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>Bob Rae says the Liberal Party should look to a new \u201cgeneration of leadership\u201d \u2013 but in the interim, he is happy to serve as leader.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old Toronto Centre MP and former NDP premier of Ontario was named interim leader by the Liberal caucus on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Canada gave the Liberal Party a very clear and tough message in the last election,\u201d Mr. Rae said at a lunchtime news conference. \u201cIt&#8217;s a message that we have received and understood.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More importantly, the stage has now been set for the 3-way dueling pianos debate the country desperately needs!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-V6GPxsxgUlE\/Td04brehQKI\/AAAAAAAACeI\/NwRGsPdqb6w\/s1600\/piano%2Bharper.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610702758951862434\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-V6GPxsxgUlE\/Td04brehQKI\/AAAAAAAACeI\/NwRGsPdqb6w\/s320\/piano%2Bharper.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DAaE7UtZTIw\/Td04XRHhCjI\/AAAAAAAACeA\/xx0fngVUqFg\/s1600\/piano%2Brae.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610702683156580914\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DAaE7UtZTIw\/Td04XRHhCjI\/AAAAAAAACeA\/xx0fngVUqFg\/s320\/piano%2Brae.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gQxfj-GcLkI\/Td04SBucr2I\/AAAAAAAACd4\/y1jDVPACS0w\/s1600\/piano%2Blayton.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610702593125560162\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gQxfj-GcLkI\/Td04SBucr2I\/AAAAAAAACd4\/y1jDVPACS0w\/s320\/piano%2Blayton.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said all along, this was the obvious choice for interim leader. Rae is a gifted politician, and will keep the party relevent while it rebuilds. Liberals name Bob Rae interim chief Bob Rae says the Liberal Party should look to a new \u201cgeneration of leadership\u201d \u2013 but in the interim, he is happy [&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\/3050"}],"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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}