{"id":3906,"date":"2008-04-23T01:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:47:02","slug":"hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3906","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton theme song for this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have shamelessly ripped this off from Michelle Malkin – <\/p>\n

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UPDATE<\/u> –<\/strong> Obama’s Gloves Are Off — And May Need to Stay Off – washingtonpost.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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But the candidate who rocketed to stardom as the embodiment of a new kind of politics — hopeful, positive and inspiring — saw his image tarnished in the bruising fight for Pennsylvania. Provoked by Clinton’s repeated references to his remarks about the state’s voters and her charges that he is an "elitist," Obama struck back in the closing days of the campaign. <\/p>\n

"It’s a real danger for Obama, and if you look at these recent ads, the messages they’re delivering in all these conference calls, it’s a far cry from last fall," when the theme of hope emerged amid calls for a more negative tone, said Democratic consultant Steve Elmendorf, a Clinton supporter. <\/p>\n

Republican strategist John Feehery put it less charitably: "That’s the danger of running as holier-than-thou. You have a lot farther to fall." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have shamelessly ripped this off from Michelle Malkin – UPDATE – Obama’s Gloves Are Off — And May Need to Stay Off – washingtonpost.com But the candidate who rocketed to stardom as the embodiment of a new kind of politics — hopeful, positive and inspiring — saw his image tarnished in the bruising fight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}