{"id":3993,"date":"2009-05-19T17:41:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2009-05-19T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:41:17","slug":"when-partisanship-gets-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/05\/19\/when-partisanship-gets-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"When Partisanship Gets silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton to Become Special Haiti Envoy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a title that seems like it should be fairly innocuous.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice enough for Bill Clinton, nice enough for Haiti, nice enough for the United Nations. There aren&#8217;t any visible wedges too make partisan points.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re kind of petty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/bill-clinton-to-become-special-haiti-envoy\/\">As with in the comments section<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p><em>I think this is a bad idea. President Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s immoral behavior sets a bad example. If everyone treated their families the way he treated his\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6our economy and military strength would be ruined. We need to send a message to developing nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that one of the keys to individual prosperity is a strong and faithful marriage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Augustine 25<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people are prone into falling into\u00c2\u00a0these Hyper-Partisan Rut.\u00c2\u00a0 Hold on.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s another one!<\/p>\n<p><em>This man is an ex-President of the United States. The highest office in our country. He worked with other leaders of the world on the world stage. Can this man do anymore to demean the office. For an ex-President of the United States to go to work for the UN is absolutely appalling. Especially while his wife is serving as our countrys Sec of State. What is wrong with this guy??????<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Larry<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">That being said, the partisanship on the other end is a little odd.<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p><em>he is perfect for this job<br \/>\nCheck out my Bill Clinton blog<br \/>\n(url of his Bill Clinton blog)<br \/>\n&#8212; Amy Dugan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is the point of a Bill Clinton blog?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton to Become Special Haiti Envoy. It&#8217;s a title that seems like it should be fairly innocuous.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice enough for Bill Clinton, nice enough for Haiti, nice enough for the United Nations. There aren&#8217;t any visible wedges too make partisan points. Unless you&#8217;re kind of petty. As with in the comments section: I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}