{"id":3146,"date":"2009-12-23T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mass-dem-for-senate-martha-coakley-says-reagan-was-bad-for-america\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:09:09","slug":"mass-dem-for-senate-martha-coakley-says-reagan-was-bad-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mass-dem-for-senate-martha-coakley-says-reagan-was-bad-for-america.php","title":{"rendered":"Mass Dem for Senate Martha Coakley, says Reagan was bad for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/SzCbjEmZIRI\/AAAAAAAAI1A\/w-SZNWWi_rk\/s1600-h\/ScottBrown.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bb7e7_ScottBrown.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Republican Scott Brown defends Reagan's record<\/strong><\/p><p>Republican nominee Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley squared off in a live debate on radio station WBZ Boston last night.  Both are vying for the Ted Kennedy seat. The special election is Jan. 19.  <\/p><p>The two candidates disagreed sharply over a number of issues.  But Coakley may have stumbled towards the end, making what many would regard as an insulting comment to a former President.<\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/12\/22\/senate_candidates_spar_over_health_care_climate_change\/?page=2\">Boston.com<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>They disagreed, however, over Ronald Reagan&rsquo;s effectiveness in the second half of the century.<\/p><p>&ldquo;While everybody thought he was fun to have a beer with . . . I think that he did a great disservice to this country,&rsquo;&rsquo; Coakley said.<\/p><p>&ldquo;I have to respond to that,&rsquo;&rsquo; Brown said. &ldquo;He brought great pride to our country at a time when we needed it and helped to bring down the Soviet Union, Iron Curtain. Just to [say] go out and have a beer with him, that&rsquo;s, I think, inappropriate.&rsquo;&rsquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy (real name), also participated, but was mainly relegated to the background.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bb7e7_7828681836623105417-7817615696953857181?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Scott Brown defends Reagan's recordRepublican nominee Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley squared off in a live debate on radio station WBZ Boston last night. Both are vying for the Ted Kennedy seat. The special election is Jan. 19. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mass-dem-for-senate-martha-coakley-says-reagan-was-bad-for-america.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}