{"id":3028,"date":"2008-03-26T23:48:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T05:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2008-04-01T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:53:39","slug":"clinton-throws-herself-under-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3028","title":{"rendered":"Clinton throws herself under the bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political assassins from A to Z, including former New York City mayor and Democrat Ed Koch, have taken to bellowing that Barack Obama &#8220;threw his grandmother under the bus&#8221; when he referred to her as a typical white person <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/03\/20\/obama-grandmother-was-a-_n_92587.html\">in this radio interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Koch and the rest were projecting ahead of partisan backlash to come following Hillary Clinton&#8217;s appearance on FOX News this evening.  Billed as an interview, it plays like an endorsement, with Greta Van Susteren pitching soft balls to a Clinton-in-red who stood stiffly before an American flag and suggestive backdrop like one Mike Huckabee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8xn7uSHtkuA\">used in this ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&#038;streamingFormat=FLASH&#038;referralObject=08255e00-cc68-4a12-8738-0d250631d2e2&#038;referralPlaylistId=df5603c3d11ca9a023b0070cfc5f297e279fd3a7\">Link to Clinton Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinton is oblivious to how deeply she&#8217;s hated by Republicans crossing over in record numbers to ensure her a good showing in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.  2012 will not be her year; Gore, Kerry and Edwards will empathise.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not.   They seem to have standards that the Clintons lack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political assassins from A to Z, including former New York City mayor and Democrat Ed Koch, have taken to bellowing that Barack Obama &#8220;threw his grandmother under the bus&#8221; when he referred to her as a typical white person in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3028\">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-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-MQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","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=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}