{"id":197545,"date":"2008-01-26T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/26\/better-now-than-in-the-general-obama-rezko-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T00:28:00","slug":"better-now-than-in-the-general-obama-rezko-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/26\/better-now-than-in-the-general-obama-rezko-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Now Than in The General Obama-Rezko  Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/story?id=4192358&amp;page=1\">Obama-Rezko stuff<\/a>; this time it&#8217;s the fact that the Obama campaign has not returned all the Rezko related donations.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, I don&#8217;t find this particularly meaningful from a policy or corruption position, but I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do<\/span> see it as significant from from a political perspective.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, one of my concerns about Obama (ignoring the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/sorry-obama-is-engaging-in-dog-whistle.html\">gay baiting McClurkin thing<\/a>) is that he has <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/jerome-armstrong-has-definitive-word-on.html\">never been in a serious campaign against a Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has always run in a dead girl\/live boy* safe Democratic district, except for his Senate campaign, which was against Alan Keys, who is so obviously seriously mentally ill that it counts as the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>What he is getting now is less than one<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> one thousandth <\/span>of what the Republicans would throw at him in the general election, and the his response, and that of his campaign, has generally been pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, getting this cleared up in the primary, is better than waiting for the general.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Edwin Edwards, when discovering that he would be facing David Duke in the Louisiana governor&#8217;s race, said that the the only way that he would lose were if he were, &#8220;caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Obama-Rezko stuff; this time it&#8217;s the fact that the Obama campaign has not returned all the Rezko related donations. Truth be told, I don&#8217;t find this particularly meaningful from a policy or corruption position, but I do see it as significant from from a political perspective. As I&#8217;ve said before, one of my concerns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197545"}],"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=197545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}