{"id":576,"date":"2006-06-13T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/13\/the_other_green\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T16:22:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T20:22:51","slug":"the_other_green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/13\/the_other_green\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is about green politicians. No, not the Green Party politicians, but the kind Shailagh Murray wrote about this morning in The Post<\/a>. The story, for the most part a good one, was about the battle of a GOP incumbent who finds himself in his first real fight to stay in office since he was elected 20 years ago. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know that the Democratic opponent has never run for office, but as a retired Navy vice admiral, Joseph A. Sestak Jr. has apparently made it a race. About 10 points separate them at this early stage.<\/p>\n

Most of the article is about the incumbent, with a few graphs about other incumbents under pressure and remarks from moderates or Republicans that indicate this could be a tight race.<\/p>\n

But at the end of the piece he writes of the opponent, “As a politician, he’s still a little green.”<\/p>\n

But none of what follows supports that contention:<\/p>\n

“Speaking at the Broomall Presbyterian Village nursing home one afternoon, Sestak launched into a somewhat rambling discourse on how Weldon is out of touch with district concerns. Leaning on a woman’s walker, he lambasted the GOP-led House for ignoring big, looming problems, including health care, energy conservation and affordable college.<\/p>\n

‘National security begins here at home,’ Sestak shouted for the benefit of the hearing impaired. ‘Our national treasure is our people.’<\/p>\n

‘Please tell Mr. Weldon to retire,’ resident Anne Anastasiou shouted back from the crowd. ‘We’ve had enough of him.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote to the reporter and concluded with,<\/p>\n

You may thought what he said was rambling, and I support your journalistic right — and even a duty — to say so. But that doesn’t make him “green” Bush rambles — incoherently sometimes. But he’s no green politician.<\/p>\n

I’m just curious, what makes him “green”?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is about green politicians. No, not the Green Party politicians, but the kind Shailagh Murray wrote about this morning in The Post. The story, for the most part a good one, was about the battle of a GOP incumbent who finds himself in his first real fight to stay in office since he was… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}