{"id":3327,"date":"2010-10-26T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T03:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2010-11-10T05:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T10:46:45","slug":"the-congressman-for-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3327","title":{"rendered":"The Congressman for Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard Congressman Oberstar&#8217;s latest cheapo TV ad a couple of days ago. It featured a tiny video of his oponant Chip Cravaack saying something about how Maylasia was a model of entrepreneural spirit. Then a snippet of a Cravaack saying, &#8220;like Malaysia&#8221; was played back three times in response to questions asked by the narrator but, of course, never heard by Craavack. I was in another room when I heard the voice over guy say &#8220;Chip Cravaack would be a good Congressman&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.for Maylasia.&#8221; I laughed strenuously. It ranked right up there with Science Mystery Theater for a good laugh.  <\/p>\n<p>It was Jimmy&#8217;s first attack ad and its hard to say whether its cheesiness or its ineffectuality was more glaring. After a second viewing tonight I&#8217;m pretty sure it will drive a lot of undecideds to the Cravaack camp. <\/p>\n<p>I felt) as far back as 1992 when I first ran against Oberstar that no one much loved him. The same was true when I ran against him in 2006. Its just as true today and Chip Cravaack has been a model candidate. Cravaack has done nothing sleazy in fact, his ads are a model of restraint. And tonight the Congressional GOP put on a blistering television ad scorching Oberstar. It was effective.<\/p>\n<p>Up until a few days ago I was telling folks that while Oberstar won&#8217;t get his usual minimum 59% of the vote but that he should still pull through. Had he gotten the national Democrats to help him early he could have saved himself.  Instead he had someone produce a rinky dink ad that does him no credit. I think its too late for Oberstar.  I&#8217;m not eager for the GOP to take over Congress but it will be nice to demonstrate that I was correct all along about Oberstar being a paper tiger. This Congressional District will never be the same again&#8230;&#8230;.if it even manages to survive reapportionment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard Congressman Oberstar&#8217;s latest cheapo TV ad a couple of days ago. It featured a tiny video of his oponant Chip Cravaack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327"}],"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=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}