{"id":1762,"date":"2007-12-10T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2007-12-10T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:46:51","slug":"from-the-ridiculous-to-theer-sublimely-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"From The Ridiculous To The&#8230;Er, Sublimely Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K-Eck from Eckernet notes that Hillary&#8217;s planted answers might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eckernet.com\/2007\/12\/clinton_again_stick_to_the_planted_questions_and_scripted_answers.html\">be actually better than her supporters&#8217; sincere support<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Andrew Young, civil rights activists, apparently was making the argument for the Clintons being \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20071208\/D8TDI1B00.html\">more black<\/a>\u201d than Obama.  And as justification for that he had this to say\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe\u2019s probably gone with more black women than Barack,\u201d Young said of former President Clinton, drawing laughter from a live television audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Erhm &#8211; by that rationale, I&#8217;m more hispanic than Clinton&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have no doubt that is true\u2026.and that\u2019s just since he married Hillary. Although I\u2019m not sure the sexual prowness is really a critical skill needed to be president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although it apparently doesn&#8217;t hurt with the &#8220;feminist&#8221; vote, if the former President&#8217;s record is any indication.<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Probably more troubling is this\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Young went on to say that Obama needs a protective network that he currently lacks &#8211; a quality that could hurt him if he were to be elected. He said Hillary Clinton already has that kind of network, including her husband to back her up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh, if everything you plan on doing is legal and ethical, how critical is that??<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Without that extended Clinton network of hacks, lawyers and media sycophants, how <em>will<\/em> Obama survive?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose White House travel office employees can breathe easier if Obie wins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-Eck from Eckernet notes that Hillary&#8217;s planted answers might be actually better than her supporters&#8217; sincere support: Andrew Young, civil rights activists, apparently was making the argument for the Clintons being \u201cmore black\u201d than Obama. And as justification for that he had this to say\u2026 \u201cHe\u2019s probably gone with more black women than Barack,\u201d Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","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=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}