{"id":1667,"date":"2008-11-12T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2015-10-18T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:08:22","slug":"bottom-line-on-this-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"The bottom line on this campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

is that I ended up thinking a lot less of both<\/em> the final candidates when it finished than I did when they first started running.Oddly enough, the opposite is true of Hillary Clinton.(I still think she’s a political opportunist, etc.; but I have to admire the spirit and resiliency she showed, even if it was in the service of raw, vindictive ambition. The negative things that she displayed during this campaign didn’t surprise me any, but we also, I think, saw some really positive aspects to her that I at least hadn’t seen before.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

is that I ended up thinking a lot less of both the final candidates when it finished than I did when they first started running.Oddly enough, the opposite is true of Hillary Clinton.(I still think she’s a political opportunist, etc.; but I have to admire the spirit and resiliency she showed, even if it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6R3Ax-qT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1682,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1682","url_meta":{"origin":1667,"position":0},"title":"Final thought on John McCain","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"7 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Though there's much that I admire about John McCain the man, I've felt for a long time that his best qualities were all personal, and that (from a conservative point of view, anyway) there was little to say for him as a politician. 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I believe John McCain has a chance to win, but I don't believe he'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Barack Obama"","block_context":{"text":"Barack Obama","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=74"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1674,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1674","url_meta":{"origin":1667,"position":4},"title":"Palin-bashers discover the Law of Unintended Consequences","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"11 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I took note last Friday of the dishonorable cowards in the McCain campaign who started trashing Sarah Palin before the election had even been held, presumably to try to shift the blame for the loss away from their own performance.It didn't work. It didn't work because Gov. Palin made an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=63"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2211,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=2211","url_meta":{"origin":1667,"position":5},"title":"Again, credit where credit is due","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"7 February 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I didn't give Mitt Romney enough credit: today he suspended his campaign. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Does this, as the pundits are saying, seal the deal for John McCain? Or does Gov. 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