{"id":2250,"date":"2007-11-13T09:20:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/clinton_fields\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T14:20:30","slug":"clinton_fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/11\/clinton_fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Fields Planted Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t paid real close attention to presidential campaign rhetoric, but one of the talking points I recall Senator Hillary Clinton using–repeatedly–at the last debate was that we should elect her because she would “fight” for us voters. In fact, she said it so often it seemed as if this was the only<\/em> reason we should vote for her. She’s fought Bush and she will keep fighting.
\nWell, Senator, if this<\/a> is your way of showing us how you confront adversity, you’re doing it wrong:<\/p>\n

After a tour, the candidate [Clinton] took questions from the crowd.
\nShe called on a young woman. “As a young person,” said the well-spoken Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, “I’m worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?”
\n“Well, you should be worried,” Clinton replied. “You know, I find as I travel around Iowa that it’s usually young people that ask me about global warming.”
\nThere’s a good reason for that, too. The question was a plant<\/a>, totally rigged in advance, like a late-night infomercial. Just before the public forum a Clinton staffer had chosen the young woman, a student at Grinnell College, and asked her to ask that specific question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arranging for staged punches isn’t exactly the hallmark of a champion fighter.
\nI’m not totally unsympathetic to campaigns wanting to focus their message on campaign events. And if I was a candidate I’d probably grow weary of fielding lame questions at such events. But if the Clinton campaign felt they had to set something up, couldn’t they have at least generated an interesting question? That wasn’t even as creative as a fake FEMA press conference.
\nWhat’s up with all the “fighter” talk, anyway? I think this is the Clinton campaign’s cleaver way of trying to mask her high negative numbers. People don’t like her because she is so effective in combating Republican ideology, the excuse goes.
\nThat would be nice if it were true. Unfortunately, I think there’s much more to her unfavorable numbers than that. And this kind of story only perpetuates the notion that Clinton isn’t a straight shooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t paid real close attention to presidential campaign rhetoric, but one of the talking points I recall Senator Hillary Clinton using–repeatedly–at the last debate was that we should elect her because she would “fight” for us voters. In fact, she said it so often it seemed as if this was the only reason we […]<\/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-2250","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\/2250","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=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}