{"id":1666,"date":"2008-03-07T19:34:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-03-07T19:36:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:36:03","slug":"its_a_tough_wee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Tough Week To Be A Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Samantha Power didn’t exactly set me on fire, and this week she managed to show some foot-in-mouth disease<\/a> and cost herself her role in the campaign, and her colleague Susan Rice explained<\/a> that neither Obama nor Hillary are ready for the 3am call. Sheesh.But when I wonder why I can’t bring myself to support Hillary, there’s always this to shore me up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.<\/p>\n

\nThe archivists’ decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides, prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests.<\/p>\n

\nClinton’s legal agent declined the option of reviewing and releasing the documents that were withheld, said the archivists, who work for the federal government, not the Clintons.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And when I suggested that Obama’s idealistic foreign policy – the one sticking point in my support for him – wouldn’t survive contact with reality, I may just have been right<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For all the chatter about Obama adviser Samantha Power’s calling Clinton a “monster,” another set of remarks made on her book tour in the United Kingdom may be equally threatening to the Obama campaign: Comments in a BBC interview that express a lack of confidence that Obama will be able to carry through his plan to withdraw troops from Iraq within 16 months.<\/p>\n

\n“He will, of course, not rely on some plan that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crafted as a presidential candidate or a U.S. Senator,” she said at one point in the interview.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…or maybe that’s<\/u><\/b> why she resigned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missteps to the right of me, corruption to the left…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}