{"id":131154,"date":"2016-07-28T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/the-muscovite-candidate.html"},"modified":"2016-07-28T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T03:06:25","slug":"the-muscovite-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/the-muscovite-candidate.html","title":{"rendered":"The Muscovite Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#39;s not the Cold War days, but it does make one wonder: if the Russian government is so busy trying to help Donald Trump win (or make Hillary Clinton lose) &#8230; why?  Trump says it&#39;s because Putin doesn&#39;t respect Clinton. But how exactly does that make sense as a motivation?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/all-signs-point-to-russia-being-behind-the-dnc-hack'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/NtSrjBRap3GHCJEkvAvdEnxiS2g-HYQuh3v7hZqhyhf1lL9XJRwo0NhFAl-3Kf5Uk5em9pzJoawomuMATHND1ArYxu6Gt2iNqZXp3eQ4a7o11-AbNtiqg3ueEIAszggyQidQqT1FKrtCW2LIOP6RtDORnNa9YDSkMnrcEYKO1FmnMDn1xcNjmpUOiTy7sGcs1_n3hlDv7pkRKLHSaYug2Fluq-9ZoNA-XaxfIZlakGjsMvpkNeU7FWyX=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/all-signs-point-to-russia-being-behind-the-dnc-hack'>All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhy the recent hack of the Democratic National Committee is a game-changer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/g7wHvaR6yD5'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#39;s not the Cold War days, but it does make one wonder: if the Russian government is so busy trying to help Donald Trump win (or make Hillary Clinton lose) &#8230; why? Trump says it&#39;s because Putin doesn&#39;t respect Clinton. But how exactly does that make sense as a motivation? All Signs Point to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/the-muscovite-candidate.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Muscovite Candidate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130661,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/because-republican-voters-never-ever-judge-people-on-their-personal-lives.html","url_meta":{"origin":131154,"position":0},"title":"Because Republican voters never, EVER judge people on their personal lives","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-May-16 7:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Official GOP hack Reince Priebus declares that Republicans aren't interested in dusty old news about stuff that Donald Trump did so long ago because they are much more interested in dusty old news about stuff that Bill Clinton did long ago.Referring to Trump, Priebus said, \"There are things he's going\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131146,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/donald-trump-is-a-dolt-from-russia-with-love-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":131154,"position":1},"title":"Donald Trump is a Dolt (From Russia with Love Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Jul-16 10:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, just to be sure I have this straight, Donald Trump, the GOP Nominee for President of the United States ...1. 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Trump maybe net won in terms of not running across the stage and groping Clinton; he almost seemed normal, aside from his ability to put together\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/campaign-2016-debate5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/campaign-2016-debate5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/campaign-2016-debate5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":131655,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/a-few-day-after-notes-on-the-first-clinton-trump-debate.html","url_meta":{"origin":131154,"position":3},"title":"A few day-after notes on the first Clinton-Trump debate","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Sep-16 9:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"I wasn't particularly happy with my live-blogging of the debate last night -- too much transcript, not enough of what I'd intended, commentary -- but it did provide me with some notes to through.Trump's facial expressions a the debate were ... offputting to me. 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