{"id":27234,"date":"2019-04-18T10:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27234"},"modified":"2019-04-19T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:19:39","slug":"barr-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27234","title":{"rendered":"Barr none"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I blame having so much on my mind for starting three or four attempts at a column next week before shelving all of them. But Attorney General Bob Barr gave me enough for a post this morning. <\/p>\n<p>His reasonable explanation of the Mueller report&#8217;s findings will no doubt threaten to put Democrats into apoplexy otherwise knows as being chickens with their heads cut off.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Headless Chicken Lives\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATz3AdbjyRI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The risk of apoplexy is that it will scare voters away from Democratic candidates. What Democrats need to remember is that there are plenty of reasons for American voters not to reelect Donald Trump even more reasons than there were three years ago not to let him become the Republican nominee.That&#8217;s when I first used snow to warn that he would be a disaster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4441\/37022398695_d7bf3f6958.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I put up a <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18688\">No Manchurian Candidate<\/a> lawnsign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5637\/30627410061_3f6fc0b985_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and after the snow melted then after his election I offered this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4741\/38894706644_dcb328083d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I ran against a Trump enthusiast in the Republican Congressional primary then this year for new year I made this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wdio.com\/wdioimages\/repository\/2019-01\/harry-welty-snow-sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And BTW I just found an email from January from a witness who told me that he saw a young man with Massachusetts plates pushing the head over.<\/p>\n<p>So when I say that Bob Barr sounded reasonable this morning I think Democrats should slow down. Newt Gingrich handed Democrats a huge weapon when he went after Bill Clinton over his sexcapades. There are plenty of other reasons to elect someone other than Donald Trump. An acquaintance of mine just texted me to say that Americans have 300 more days of Donald Trump before they can vote for someone else.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already written in the Reader that I will vote for whoever the Democrats nominate to challenge Trump. Not every potential Trump disapproving voter will automatically do that. I will support Bill Weld in the Republican field until the GOP swats him aside. <\/p>\n<p>Our real enemy is disinformation. Both Russian and Fox News&#8217;s. I&#8217;d refer my readers to <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27118\">the story about Rupert Murdoch<\/a> in a recent New York Times and to remember its News Impresario, Roger Ailes&#8221; who sold Richard Nixon to America. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prodimage.images-bn.com\/pimages\/9780140112405_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this demonstrates just how unbalanced Fox News is. To paraphrase Pogo, &#8220;We have met the enemy and it is Fox News.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What if Fox News covered Trump the way it covered Obama? It would look like this <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dLfhHToieL\">pic.twitter.com\/dLfhHToieL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nowthisimpact\/status\/1118228314257350657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blame having so much on my mind for starting three or four attempts at a column next week before shelving all of them&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27234"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27251,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions\/27251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}