{"id":169,"date":"2006-12-05T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/05\/buying-the-presidency\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T21:56:06","slug":"buying-the-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Buying The Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/05\/us\/politics\/05obama.html?ei=5090&#038;en=d45c54c42290ee99&#038;ex=1322974800&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=print\">meets with George Soros<\/a><br \/>\n, hoping to tap into some of the magic the government-toppling currency speculator has brought tot he world of leftyblogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Barack Obama treaded onto Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s home turf last night to meet with prominent Democratic donors and feel out those who might prefer the sound of President Obama to President Clinton (as in Hillary, not Bill).<\/p>\n<p>Amid intensifying presidential musings by Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama met with George Soros, the liberal billionaire philanthropist, and then some other donors last night at Mr. Soros\u2019s offices&#8230;Mr. Soros, an early supporter, was the host of a fund-raiser during Mr. Obama\u2019s campaign for the Senate in 2004, but he has not publicly committed to any candidate for the 2008 race, said Michael Vachon, an aide to Mr. Soros.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Soros will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/site.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_People&#038;newDisplayURN=200306020019\">undercut the dollar<\/a> in &#8217;08 to get a Democrat into office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama meets with George Soros , hoping to tap into some of the magic the government-toppling currency speculator has brought tot he world of leftyblogs: Senator Barack Obama treaded onto Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s home turf last night to meet with prominent Democratic donors and feel out those who might prefer the sound of [&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-169","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\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}