{"id":1031,"date":"2007-07-10T04:14:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T09:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2007-07-10T04:14:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T09:14:04","slug":"famous-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Famous Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite &#8220;Dewey Beats Truman&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0707\/Hillary_the_inevitable.html\">but<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama strategist David Plouffe released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0707\/Plouffes_memo_Hillary_as_incumbent.html\">memo<\/a> last week arguing that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s advantages were essentially those of incumbency, that her support was thin, and that Obama should actually be considered the front-runner.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Penn, Clinton&#8217;s chief strategist, responded today with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/pdf\/PPM43_070709_hillarymessage.pdf\">memo<\/a> that seemed designed to bludgeon all opposition into senselessness through the sheer power of numbers (links to 40 polls showing Hillary in the lead!)<\/p>\n<p>Penn strongly implies another i-word is the best description of Hillary &#8212; not &#8220;incumbent,&#8221; but &#8220;inevitable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;I have a hunch <em>someone <\/em>will regret that someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite &#8220;Dewey Beats Truman&#8221;, but&#8230;: Obama strategist David Plouffe released a memo last week arguing that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s advantages were essentially those of incumbency, that her support was thin, and that Obama should actually be considered the front-runner. Mark Penn, Clinton&#8217;s chief strategist, responded today with a memo that seemed designed to bludgeon all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}