{"id":12435,"date":"2008-05-03T11:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/03\/the-democratic-primaries.html"},"modified":"2008-05-03T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:10:45","slug":"the_democratic_primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/the_democratic_primaries.html","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/obama08.jpg\" style=\"width: 265px; height: 140px; \" alt=\"\" title=\"Obama in 2008\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been intentionally kind of quiet over the Democratic Primaries, aside from offering up my preference and support for Obama. My reasons for that are both pragmatic and philosophical:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> I distinctly prefer Obama to Clinton, for reasons I will go into after the campaign is over and Obama is the nominee (he said, hopefully).<\/li>\n<li> I still prefer Clinton to McCain; unlike some folks (who, I hope, are more posturing than honest), if Clinton gets the nomination, I will be supporting her over the GOP candidate, not sulking and refusing to vote.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>While #1 suggests I should talk about about Obama over Clinton, or complain about some of the things Clinton and her campaign have been doing and saying, #2 suggests that to do so will, should she get the nomination, only aid comfort and support to McCain. Since I&#8217;m more interested in seeing either Democrat get in for 2008 than McCain, I (unlike some others, it seems) would rather not do so.<\/p>\n<p>While that smacks a bit of the Democratic variant of the Eleventh Commandment, there is a time and place for everything. Bashing other Democrats right now is counterproductive to my goal in November. Time enough for that retrospective bashing later on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been intentionally kind of quiet over the Democratic Primaries, aside from offering up my preference and support for Obama. My reasons for that are both pragmatic and philosophical: I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11758,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/mitt_splits.html","url_meta":{"origin":12435,"position":0},"title":"Mitt Splits","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Feb-08 11:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Mitt Romney is \"suspending his campaign\" (quitting the race) for the GOP nomination. 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