{"id":181928,"date":"2016-02-08T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/08\/maybe-i-am-a-cynic-but-i-think-that-hillary-was-forced-to-do-this\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T02:30:00","slug":"maybe-i-am-a-cynic-but-i-think-that-hillary-was-forced-to-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/08\/maybe-i-am-a-cynic-but-i-think-that-hillary-was-forced-to-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I am a Cynic, but I Think that Hillary was Forced to Do This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that if Bernie Sanders were at 10%, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/hillary-clinton-pledges-not-to-cut-social-security_us_56b630dfe4b04f9b57d9d482\">Hillary Clinton would not have just pledged never to cut Social Security<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hillary Clinton promised on Friday that she would not cut Social Security benefits, winning praise from progressive groups that had pressured her to take such a stance &#8212; but drawing questions from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who challenged her commitment to the issue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t cut Social Security,&#8221; Clinton wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/695764254855733248\">initialed tweet<\/a> that included a link to her campaign website\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/issues\/social-security-and-medicare\/\">Social Security page<\/a>. &#8220;As always, I&#8217;ll defend it, &amp; I&#8217;ll expand it. Enough false innuendos.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The post was a response to something Sanders had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/695751703598129152\">tweeted<\/a> earlier in the day, when he urged Clinton to &#8220;join me in saying loudly and clearly that we will never cut Social Security.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let me make this clear, I am <u><b>NOT<\/b><\/u> suggesting that Clinton is lying.<\/p>\n<p>I am suggesting that she was dragged into this kicking and screaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that if Bernie Sanders were at 10%, Hillary Clinton would not have just pledged never to cut Social Security: Hillary Clinton promised on Friday that she would not cut Social Security benefits, winning praise from progressive groups that had pressured her to take such a stance &#8212; but drawing questions from Sen. Bernie &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,978,977,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181928"}],"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=181928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}