{"id":324,"date":"2007-11-28T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T09:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/28\/big-surprise-romney-is-a-bigot\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T09:15:21","slug":"big-surprise-romney-is-a-bigot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/big-surprise-romney-is-a-bigot\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Surprise:  Romney is a bigot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked if he would ever nominate a Muslim for his cabinet, he replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    &#8220;&#8230;based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a way, I agree.  When it comes to Mormons, anyway. This country is just not ready for a minority (Mormon) president.<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/11\/27\/romn\/\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked if he would ever nominate a Muslim for his cabinet, he replied: &#8220;&#8230;based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration.&#8221; In a way, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/big-surprise-romney-is-a-bigot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Surprise:  Romney is a bigot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}