{"id":182306,"date":"2015-10-24T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/24\/and-then-there-were-2%c2%bd\/"},"modified":"2015-10-24T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T00:16:00","slug":"and-then-there-were-2%c2%bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/24\/and-then-there-were-2%c2%bd\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then There Were 2\u00bd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most hapless of the Presidential candidates, Lincoln Chaffee has dropped out of the race<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For the third time in a week, a Democrat has bowed out of the 2016 presidential race.<\/span>

<\/span>Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor and senator, halted his long-shot quest for the Democratic nomination Friday.<\/span>

<\/span>“As you know I have been campaigning on a platform of prosperity through peace. But after much thought I have decided to end my campaign for president today,” Chafee said in a speech before a Democratic National Committee women’s event Friday morning.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>He unfurled a platform of freeing Edward Snowden and transferring the U.S. to the metric system. He raised just $15,000 for his campaign, and his awkward performance in the first Democratic debate left many wondering what his goal was in running.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I agree with his two signature positions, pardoning Snowden and going metric, I also wonder why on earth anyone would make these items signature positions.<\/p>\n

While the half of the remaining candidates, Martin O’Malley, is a long shot, (hence the “\u00bd” snark) but when one sees him on the debate stage, one does not wonder what the hell he is doing on stage, as was the case with Chaffee and Webb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most hapless of the Presidential candidates, Lincoln Chaffee has dropped out of the race: For the third time in a week, a Democrat has bowed out of the 2016 presidential race.Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor and senator, halted his long-shot quest for the Democratic nomination Friday.“As you know I have been campaigning …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182306"}],"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=182306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}