{"id":3006,"date":"2007-07-27T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/07\/who-are-they.html"},"modified":"2007-07-27T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T17:42:00","slug":"who-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/07\/who-are-they.html","title":{"rendered":"Who are &#8220;they?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Edwards, they want to shut him up so that he won&#8217;t talk about healthcare or the poor.  Um, I wonder who &#8220;they&#8221; are?  If I were the Republican candidate Edwards would be the Democrat I would most want to face and I would be happy to talk about socialized medicine with him given the many failures in Canada, the UK and France.He has delusions of grandeur if he thinks that the Republicans really care about him at this point since no one believes he&#8217;s even going to get the nomination.  I think the pressures of the campaign are getting to him and he might want to rest for a couple days.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3fz0TqaonkY\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3fz0TqaonkY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0707\/Edwards_They_want_to_shut_me_up.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/vast+rightwing+conspiracy\" rel=\"tag\">vast rightwing conspiracy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Edwards+\" rel=\"tag\">Edwards <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Edwards, they want to shut him up so that he won&#8217;t talk about healthcare or the poor. Um, I wonder who &#8220;they&#8221; are? If I were the Republican candidate Edwards would be the Democrat I would most want to face and I would be happy to talk about socialized medicine with him given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,13,14,25],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-democrats","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who are &quot;they?&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/07\/who-are-they.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who are &quot;they?&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to Edwards, they want to shut him up so that he won&#8217;t talk about healthcare or the poor. 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