{"id":820,"date":"2006-03-02T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=820"},"modified":"2006-03-02T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T17:43:00","slug":"ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dereklipman.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/draft-gerard.html\">Ward-Heeler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bestworsttimes.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/draft-kennedy.html\">Best\/Worst of Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/our-very-own-kennedy.html\">Daveberta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenkinsella.com\/musings.htm\">Warren Kinsella<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thedanreport.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/confirmed-kennedy-urged-to-run-for.html\">The Dan Report<\/a>, and several other blogs have already posted encouraging <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerard_Kennedy\">Gerard Kennedy <\/a>to run for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060302.wxliberals02\/BNStory\/National\/home\">Liberal Leadership<\/a>. Everything I hear says that Gerard is still on the fence so I think it&#8217;s time for a little grass roots movement, courtesy of the world wide web.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you would support him, it&#8217;s hard to deny that a young, charismatic, bilingual, socially progressive Liberal with roots in Western Canada would <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/gerard-kennedy-experiment.html\">bring a lot to the race<\/a>. If nothing else, he could spare us all the prospect of a Bob Rae\/Belinda Stronach final ballot.<\/p>\n<p>So I encourage Liberals everywhere to let Gerard know they&#8217;d like him to run. Tell him what he could bring to the race. Tell him the Liberal Party needs him. Tell him that only a handful of individuals get a chance to become Prime Minister and make this country a better place.<\/p>\n<p>You can e-mail him at: <a href=\"mailto:gkennedy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org\">gkennedy.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, if you prefer, fill out an online e-mail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edu.gov.on.ca\/tools\/eduminister\/eng\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ward-Heeler, Best\/Worst of Times, Daveberta, Warren Kinsella, The Dan Report, and several other blogs have already posted encouraging Gerard Kennedy to run for Liberal Leadership. Everything I hear says that Gerard is still on the fence so I think it&#8217;s time for a little grass roots movement, courtesy of the world wide web. Whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}