{"id":181745,"date":"2016-03-28T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/28\/this-is-a-new-level-of-low\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:44:00","slug":"this-is-a-new-level-of-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/28\/this-is-a-new-level-of-low\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a New Level of Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Clinton campaign is saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/274470-clinton-aide-new-york-debate-depends-on-tone-of-sanders\">they won&#8217;t debate Sanders unless he stops criticizing her<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A top aide to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign on Monday dodged questions about setting up a debate with Bernie Sanders in New York, saying it depends on the senator&#8217;s &#8220;tone.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;This is a man who said he&#8217;d never run a negative ad ever. He&#8217;s now running them. They&#8217;re planning to run more,&#8221; Joel Benenson, Clinton&#8217;s chief strategist, said on CNN. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see the tone of the campaign he wants to run before we get to any other questions.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After winning a trio of states over the weekend, Sanders on Sunday called for a debate in New York ahead of that state&#8217;s April 19 primary. The Vermont senator is looking to cut into Clinton&#8217;s delegate lead and says he has the &#8220;momentum&#8221; heading into the latter half of the race.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The pair faced off in a Miami debate earlier this month, and a Sanders campaign letter on Sunday said the two campaigns had agreed to a California debate in May but had not agreed to terms on a debate in April, according to <i>The New York Times<\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How long before someone says, &#8220;If she can&#8217;t debate Bernie Sanders, how can she stand up to Vladimir Putin?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind, I just did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clinton campaign is saying that they won&#8217;t debate Sanders unless he stops criticizing her: A top aide to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign on Monday dodged questions about setting up a debate with Bernie Sanders in New York, saying it depends on the senator&#8217;s &#8220;tone.&#8221;&#8220;This is a man who said he&#8217;d never run a negative ad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,1051,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton","category-hypocrisy","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}