{"id":243,"date":"2008-02-10T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-02-10T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T20:31:13","slug":"the-reactive-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"The Reactive Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Roth, the prominent novelist summed up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,druck-534018,00.html\">one of the main arguments against the importance of Ms. Clinton&#8217;s nuanced plans<\/a> and in favor of Mr. Obama&#8217;s style of letting voters understand how he thinks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They&#8217;ll respond to particular situations as they arise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Roth dismisses the talk as &#8220;pure semantics&#8221;, and favors Mr. Obama because he wants a black president.\u00a0 But his summary of what each candidate will do in office is essentially correct.\u00a0 We cannot know what any candidate will do &#8211; even if a candidate puts forth a 12-point plan outlining exactly what they want &#8211; because in the end, Presidents are mainly driven by &#8220;particular situations as they arise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>History demonstrates this clearly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Roth, the prominent novelist summed up one of the main arguments against the importance of Ms. Clinton&#8217;s nuanced plans and in favor of Mr. Obama&#8217;s style of letting voters understand how he thinks: They&#8217;ll respond to particular situations as they arise. Mr. Roth dismisses the talk as &#8220;pure semantics&#8221;, and favors Mr. Obama because [&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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","category-the-clintons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-3V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}