{"id":1277,"date":"2004-11-07T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/say_no_to_hillary\/"},"modified":"2004-11-07T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T17:34:19","slug":"say_no_to_hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/say_no_to_hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Say &#8220;No&#8221; To Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall has a good post on why the Democrats should not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_11_07.php#003950\">nominate Hillary Clinton for president in 2008<\/a>.  He cites two reasons: first, because it&#8217;s not good for America to continue having presidential and\/or party power concentrated in two families (Clintons and Bushes); and second because Hillary would have a difficult time winning.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have anything against Senator Clinton&#8217;s ideology or her as a person.  But I think it would a disaster waiting to happen if the Democrats nominate her.  If John Kerry can&#8217;t be competitive across the south and west, there&#8217;s no way Hillary&#8217;s going to sell in red state America.  Unfortunately, image and personality seem be as important factors for a successful presidential candidate these days as message and policy.  And Hillary has been demonized for way too long for her to overcome the negative currency attached to her name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/say_no_to_hillary\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Say &#8220;No&#8221; To Hillary\"><p>Josh Marshall has a good post on why the Democrats should not nominate Hillary Clinton for president in 2008. He cites two reasons: first, because it&#8217;s not good for America to continue having presidential and\/or party power concentrated in two families (Clintons and Bushes); and second because Hillary would have a difficult time winning. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}