{"id":208,"date":"2008-01-21T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2008-01-21T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T18:05:19","slug":"be-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Be honest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]The man in question became a lawyer straight out of college, married a law professor and aspiring politician.\u00a0 He fathered one child. The son of two white Republicans \u2014 he became a Democrat and remained married to his wife while she attained higher and higher levels of political success, culminating in her election and re-election as president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented move, the first spouse was put in charge of one major area of policy &#8211; and failed miserably, as a result of his own egregious mistakes, his arrogance, and the powerful forces arrayed against him.\u00a0 This colossal failure doomed this major policy initiative for a generation despite significant majorities continuing to support it.\u00a0 After this failure, he maintained a lower profile and surfaced mainly to attack political opponents of his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Be honest: Do you think this is the biography of someone who could be elected to the United States Senate? After one full term there, do you believe he could be a viable candidate to head the most powerful nation on earth?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/08\/opinion\/08steinem.html?pagewanted=print\">Contra Gloria Steinem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]The man in question became a lawyer straight out of college, married a law professor and aspiring politician.\u00a0 He fathered one child. The son of two white Republicans \u2014 he became a Democrat and remained married to his wife while she attained higher and higher levels of political success, culminating in her election and re-election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,22,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-election-2008","category-politics","category-the-clintons"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-3m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}