{"id":1711,"date":"2008-04-17T00:55:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-04-17T00:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T00:56:49","slug":"sidebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"Sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me be absolutely clear on one thing; I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Hillary will win the Democratic nomination. She had an opening; Obama made it for her. But she was completely incapable of moving through it – her own ineptitude and tone-deafness in responding (Crown Royal?) have made her response to Obama’s gaffe as damaging to her as it is to him.<\/p>\n

Her obvious inauthenticity makes her a candidate who will never be able to succeed in the modern media world.I do think there’s a meaningful risk that Obama will lose<\/a> – but I was wrong about ’06 (the Democrats picked up far more seats than I thought they would, albeit with Blue Dog candidates)…so let’s watch the debates and see how the week will turn out.<\/p>\n

But the impact on the general is seen as significant to Democratic thinker John Judis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you look at the upcoming presidential election in this light, the Democratic prospects do not appear to be good. McCain is an acceptable Republican–a war hero and a reputed moderate. (His greatest inherent liability, which could make him unacceptable regardless of his ideas or background, is his age.) Both Democratic candidates, whatever their protestations, are seen as coming out of the party’s liberal wing on guns and abortion.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Obama is going to be the Democratic candidate…<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}