{"id":7261,"date":"2010-12-11T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T04:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2010-12-11T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T04:24:23","slug":"bernie-sanders-bill-clinton-and-richard-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/12\/11\/bernie-sanders-bill-clinton-and-richard-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, and Richard Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timrileylive.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/10\/2710\/\">Bernie  Sanders marathon speech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/technology\/how_the_world_works\/2010\/12\/10\/bernie_sanders_epic_filibuster_rant\/index.html\">&#8230; <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2010_12_10.html#019890\">in the Halls of the Senate<\/a>, the means of battling the Overton Window as much as anything else in a world where the last two Democratic Presidential candidates were ranked by a national political publication laughably as the &#8220;Most Liberal Senator&#8221;.<br \/>\nWith breaks from Sherrod Brown (makes sense) and Mary Landrieu (WHAT?).\u00c2\u00a0 They played the part Barry Goldwater played in aiding Strom Thurmond&#8217;s filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, across town, President Barack Obama brought in Bill Cinton to co-host a presser in selling the Tax Cut Deal.\u00c2\u00a0 Then he ducked out and left it as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2010\/12\/10\/clinton_seizes_control\/index.html\">Bill  Clinton&#8217;s press conference<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea what I am supposed to make of such a thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Is this a signal to the Illuminati, a dropping of the Mask of who is really in charge, a ceremonial passing of the Presidency back to Clinton == WHAT?<\/p>\n<p>From the past, the Ghost of Richard Nixon chimed in and alongside Henry Kissinger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/11\/us\/politics\/11nixon.html?_r=2\">shrugged off a hypothetical Genocidal Holocaust*<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He failed to deliver any thoughts on the Tax Cut deal, good or bad, though I imagine if he had his thoughts would probably be ignored &#8212; which is odd considering his Ghost has been running the Country for the past four decades.<\/p>\n<p>* No, I suppose there isn&#8217;t any other type of Holocaust but the &#8220;genocidal&#8221; type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders marathon speech &#8230; in the Halls of the Senate, the means of battling the Overton Window as much as anything else in a world where the last two Democratic Presidential candidates were ranked by a national political publication laughably as the &#8220;Most Liberal Senator&#8221;. With breaks from Sherrod Brown (makes sense) and Mary [&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-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","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=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7262,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}