{"id":195238,"date":"2008-07-21T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/21\/i-cannot-believe-that-i-am-quoting-robert-traitor-and-proud-of-it-novak\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:25:00","slug":"i-cannot-believe-that-i-am-quoting-robert-traitor-and-proud-of-it-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/21\/i-cannot-believe-that-i-am-quoting-robert-traitor-and-proud-of-it-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"I Cannot Believe that I am Quoting Robert &#8220;Traitor and Proud of It&#8221; Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But he says something that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/20\/AR2008072001668.html\">the punditocracy has studiously avoided saying until now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In private conversations, Clinton has expressed the view that Obama&#8217;s emphasis on Iraq &#8212; her Senate vote for it, his against it &#8212; defeated her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While this is blinding clear to everyone else in the world, to the pundits, where being wrong on Iraq is a sign of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">good<\/span> judgment, acknowledging this fact is the political reality that dare not speak its name.<\/p>\n<p>I will note that he gets one part wrong:  Obama wasn&#8217;t in the Senate for the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But he says something that I the punditocracy has studiously avoided saying until now: In private conversations, Clinton has expressed the view that Obama&#8217;s emphasis on Iraq &#8212; her Senate vote for it, his against it &#8212; defeated her. While this is blinding clear to everyone else in the world, to the pundits, where being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,977,979,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-presidential-campaign","category-wanker","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195238"}],"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=195238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}