{"id":5871,"date":"2012-01-13T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2012-01-13T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T00:39:09","slug":"gop-leader-pray-that-obamas-children-be-fatherless-and-his-wife-a-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/gop-leader-pray-that-obamas-children-be-fatherless-and-his-wife-a-widow\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leader: Pray that &#8220;Obama\u2019s \u2018Children Be Fatherless And His Wife A Widow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas House Speaker Mike O\u2019Neal is a piece of work, and I hope he is under Secret Service investigation after calling for the President&#8217;s death.  But you know he&#8217;s just a cranky old guy who&#8217;s lost his filters and is saying out loud what most Tea Party Republicans are thinking in their heads all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Think Progress has the whole story, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/01\/13\/403911\/kansas-gop-house-speaker-prays-that-obamas-children-be-fatherless-and-his-wife-a-widow\/?mobile=nc\">here&#8217;s a bit of it:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O\u2019Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that called her \u201cMrs. YoMama\u201d and compared her to the Grinch.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that same week, the Lawrence Journal-World was sent another email that O\u2019Neal had forwarded to House Republicans that referred to President Obama and a Bible verse that says \u201cLet his days be few\u201d and calls for his children to be without a father and his wife to be widowed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kansas should be ashamed of itself.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas House Speaker Mike O\u2019Neal is a piece of work, and I hope he is under Secret Service investigation after calling for the President&#8217;s death. But you know he&#8217;s just a cranky old guy who&#8217;s lost his filters and is saying out loud what most Tea Party Republicans are thinking in their heads all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/gop-leader-pray-that-obamas-children-be-fatherless-and-his-wife-a-widow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP Leader: Pray that &#8220;Obama\u2019s \u2018Children Be Fatherless And His Wife A Widow\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[301],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1wH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871"}],"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=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}