{"id":2880,"date":"2008-02-03T02:12:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2008-02-03T02:23:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T07:23:14","slug":"anythings-better-than-the-clintons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2880","title":{"rendered":"Anything&#8217;s better than the Clintons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Rick Salutin, rabble news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabble.ca\/columnists_full.shtml?x=67068\">1 February 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To each his <em>schadenfreude<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed seeing the Clintons exposed for their mean, racializing campaign tactics lately \u2014 the smirk on Bill (&#8220;the first black president&#8221;) as he implied that Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson are a couple of black guys no one should take seriously.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t overlook the Clintons&#8217; record in power. After all, they were president for eight years, governor before, and senator after. They sometimes got a pass due to the moralizing, evangelizing rightwing lynch mob that pursued them. But consider the record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabble.ca\/columnists_full.shtml?x=67068\">Read the column<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rick Salutin, rabble news, 1 February 2008 To each his schadenfreude. I&#8217;ve enjoyed seeing the Clintons exposed for their mean, racializing campaign tactics lately \u2014 the smirk on Bill (&#8220;the first black president&#8221;) as he implied that Barack Obama &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2880\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}