{"id":442,"date":"2008-05-02T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T16:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-06-21T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T15:39:45","slug":"a-granita-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"A “Granita Pact”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think this is the answer, but Daniel Altman over at the Huffington Post suggests a “Granita Pact” between Clinton and Obama<\/a>.\u00a0 Interesting – but it would make little sense for either of them.<\/p>\n

Why would Ms. Clinton agree to serve for only one term?\u00a0 Her rationale for staying in the race<\/a> according to John F. Harris and Jim VanderHei of the Politico is that Obama cannot win and would destroy the Democratic Party.\u00a0 Others talk about the insatiable Clinton lust for power<\/a>. \u00a0 Regardless, without a policy rationale to keep her in the race, it’s hard to see Ms. Clinton encouraging an Obama run ever<\/em>.\u00a0 The only reasons for her to stay in the race even now are based on either her judgment that Obama cannot win, that he would make a bad president, or that she is determined to gain power no matter what it takes.\u00a0 Otherwise, she would have gotten out of the way.<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama, on the other hand, keeps talking about the “fierce urgency of now”.\u00a0 His campaign is based on the premise that now is the moment when America needs a change, a new face, a fresh start, a different kind of politics.\u00a0 In other words, America needs a break from the Clintons and Bushes.\u00a0 For him to agree to another Clinton term when he was winning the race would brand him a typical politician.<\/p>\n

Interesting idea.\u00a0 But I don’t see either candidate accepting it.\u00a0 It makes more sense for the Democratic Party than it does for either Clinton or Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t think this is the answer, but Daniel Altman over at the Huffington Post suggests a “Granita Pact” between Clinton and Obama.\u00a0 Interesting – but it would make little sense for either of them. Why would Ms. Clinton agree to serve for only one term?\u00a0 Her rationale for staying in the race according to […]<\/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":[239,240,242,241,138],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","category-the-clintons","tag-daniel-altman","tag-huffington-post","tag-jim-vanderhei","tag-john-f-harris","tag-politico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-78","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}