{"id":914,"date":"2006-04-24T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=914"},"modified":"2006-04-24T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T03:29:00","slug":"what-about-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"What About Bob?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For better or worse, Bob Rae is off and running in the Liberal leadership race. While a lot of people are questioning the motives of Rae&#8217;s supporters, I tip my hat to them. The Liberals backing Rae can say that they have been with him since<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/toronto\/story\/tor-rae060405.html\"> the day he became a Liberal Party member<\/a>, which shows dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Rae is also set to launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobrae.ca\/\">his website<\/a>, going with the slogan &#8220;call me Bob&#8221;. Bob has wisely decided to put the bad connotations of &#8220;Rae&#8221; behind him. I consider it a worrisome sign when a candidate is running from his <em>own <\/em>name.<\/p>\n<p>In other leadership news, Carolyn Bennett has launched and has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolynbennett.ca\/site\/desktop.htm\">best website of the bunch<\/a>. Bennett even has her own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolynbennett.ca\/site\/blog-April24.htm\">Blackberry blog<\/a>, which is a cute idea.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the race is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottbrison.ca\/index_e.php\">Scott Brison<\/a>, a talented politician with a very bright future in the Liberal Party. Scott, for obvious reasons, does <em>not <\/em>have a Blackberry blog on his site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For better or worse, Bob Rae is off and running in the Liberal leadership race. While a lot of people are questioning the motives of Rae&#8217;s supporters, I tip my hat to them. The Liberals backing Rae can say that they have been with him since the day he became a Liberal Party member, which [&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-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}