{"id":320,"date":"2008-03-03T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T14:42:40","slug":"a-short-history-of-whoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"A short history of &#8220;Whoops!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/117151\/output\/print\">Eleanor Clift of <em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The much vaunted Clinton campaign operation, billed as the biggest, baddest game in town, had no post-Super Tuesday strategy because its leaders apparently didn&#8217;t think one was needed. Whether that&#8217;s due to arrogance or ignorance, it&#8217;s the campaign equivalent of what President Bush did in invading Iraq without a post-Saddam plan. The primaries are in a very true sense a practice run for the White House, and if you emerge with high marks, as Obama has, it&#8217;s a pretty clear statement of the kind of government you would run. Obama has shown a steadiness in demeanor and message. Clinton has blown through $120 million dollars, and her persona is more confused than ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was an article in <em>The Onion<\/em> from 2004 that I have been looking for, but am unable to find.  The headline read: &#8220;Bush Reelection Campaign Better Planned Than Iraq War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t extrapolate from a good campaign means that a candidate will govern well; but if you cannot run a good campaign &#8211; and you&#8217;ve never proved you can run anything &#8211; I think how the campaign is run becomes a major issue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Clift of Newsweek: The much vaunted Clinton campaign operation, billed as the biggest, baddest game in town, had no post-Super Tuesday strategy because its leaders apparently didn&#8217;t think one was needed. Whether that&#8217;s due to arrogance or ignorance, it&#8217;s the campaign equivalent of what President Bush did in invading Iraq without a post-Saddam plan. [&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":[22,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-politics","category-the-clintons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-5a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}