{"id":3317,"date":"2006-09-09T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2017-12-14T13:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:47:50","slug":"which-we-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/which-we-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Which We Is That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/07\/AR2006090701247_2.html?sub=AR\" target=\"_new\">attended an immigration rally<\/a>, which means an <i>amnesty for illegal immigrants<\/i> rally in Washington to show his support for the cause.  However, <a href=\"http:\/\/kennedy.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press_release.cfm?id=817b90f4-def2-48fa-aef1-b3104ade5b26\" target=\"_new\">his speech<\/a> proffers a possibly ill-interpreted turn of phrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And if we can&#8217;t get this Congress to pass fair immigration reform now, <b>we&#8217;ll elect a new Congress<\/b> in November that will pass it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No doubt the <i>we<\/i> means <i>the naturalized citizens and I<\/i>, but given that he&#8217;s speaking before a crowd that could, quite possibly contain some non-naturalized gente, doesn&#8217;t it sound almost as though Edward Kennedy is exhorting illegal aliens to vote Democratic in November?<\/p>\n<p>One could easily make that mistake, couldn&#8217;t one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy today attended an immigration rally, which means an amnesty for illegal immigrants rally in Washington to show his support for the cause. However, his speech proffers a possibly ill-interpreted turn of phrase: And if we can&#8217;t get this Congress to pass fair immigration reform now, we&#8217;ll elect a new Congress in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18562,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/18562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}