{"id":182322,"date":"2015-10-20T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/20\/dont-let-the-door-to-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out\/"},"modified":"2015-10-20T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:18:00","slug":"dont-let-the-door-to-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/20\/dont-let-the-door-to-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let the Door to Hit Your Ass on the Way OUt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Senator Jim Webb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/10\/20\/webb-exits-democratic-presidential-primary\/\">has left the building<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former Virginia senator Jim Webb announced Tuesday afternoon that he would no longer pursue the Democratic presidential nomination, saying that he will instead gauge support in the coming weeks for a possible White House bid as an independent candidate.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;More people in this country call themselves political independents than Republicans or Democrats. I happen to agree with them,&#8221; Webb told reporters at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I am withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party&#8217;s nominee for the presidency,&#8221; he said. \u201cThis does not reduce in any way my concerns for the challenges facing the country \u2026 or my intentions to remain fully engaged in the debates that are facing us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You are out of the Democratic primary because people saw you in the debate, and they did not not like you.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, with the House of Representative resembling an open air insane asylum, this whole &#8220;but each side does it&#8221; pseudo-balance is getting old.<\/p>\n<p>You have been running a non-campaign on the assumption that people will recognize your staggering brilliance, and no one is buying that baloney.<\/p>\n<p>Just \u2026\u2026\u2026 Go \u2026\u2026\u2026 Away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Senator Jim Webb has left the building: Former Virginia senator Jim Webb announced Tuesday afternoon that he would no longer pursue the Democratic presidential nomination, saying that he will instead gauge support in the coming weeks for a possible White House bid as an independent candidate.&#8220;More people in this country call themselves political &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182322"}],"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=182322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}