{"id":539,"date":"2004-06-21T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=539"},"modified":"2004-06-21T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T21:17:02","slug":"keeping-the-seat-warm-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the seat warm for Hillary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200406210007\">Media Matters<\/a> on the speculation.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a silly assumption in the context Matthews and Page are inferring; that Bill is intentionally sabotaging Kerry.  Clinton is a young, vital player who is withering on the vine and hungry for attention.  And I doubt his ego has ever recovered from being kept under lock and key during Gore&#8217;s run.  In his mind he&#8217;s helping Kerry not hindering him.<\/p>\n<p>But I do think it&#8217;s fair to say the Democrats aren&#8217;t anxious to take over the mess that George &#038; Co. have made with their tactical support.  The duopoly would ultimately fare better if he had four more years to dig himself, and his party, a deeper grave.  And America would have a scapegoat to hide behind for our reprehensible policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters on the speculation. I think it&#8217;s a silly assumption in the context Matthews and Page are inferring; that Bill is intentionally sabotaging Kerry. Clinton is a young, vital player who is withering on the vine and hungry for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=539\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-8H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}