{"id":55324,"date":"2015-09-23T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55324"},"modified":"2015-09-23T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:11:43","slug":"fields-of-ire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55324","title":{"rendered":"Fields Of Ire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0The Democrat Party<br \/>\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Campaign 2016<\/p>\n<p>All,<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re heading toward a presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re facing a field with a highly-accomplished woman, two Latinos, a black man, two very accomplished surgeons, two CEOs, a couple of Horatio Alger stories, a former Solicitor-General of the United States (that means &#8220;a really, really smart lawyer&#8221;), a former federal prosecutor who beat the Mob like a bongo drum, and a couple of governors who&#8217;ve actually accomplished great things (albeit one fewer than I&#8217;d have liked, all things considered).<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got a governor who enthusiastically led a failed state, a career senator who&#8217;s famous for his malaprops, a retreaded hippie who would run the economy on unicorn farts, and a &#8220;feminist icon&#8221; who is where she is precisely because she married an up-and-comer, no different than any other\u00a0<em>Mad Men-<\/em>era Scarsdale housewife, and has spent the past 40-odd years enabling him no less than the most abjectly-subjugated\u00a0<em>burqua-<\/em>clad Pakistani second wife.<\/p>\n<p>This is the paragraph where I normally throw in the punch line. \u00a0But I really don&#8217;t need one, do I?<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0The Democrat Party From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: \u00a0Campaign 2016 All, We&#8217;re heading toward a presidential election. You&#8217;re facing a field with a highly-accomplished woman, two Latinos, a black man, two very accomplished surgeons, two CEOs, a couple of Horatio Alger stories, a former Solicitor-General of the United States (that means &#8220;a really, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,20,255],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-55324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-democrats","category-the-racket","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55324","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=55324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55325,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55324\/revisions\/55325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}