{"id":1230,"date":"2008-12-02T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T09:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2008-12-02T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T09:06:47","slug":"obama-and-clinton-a-dream-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Clinton &#8211; a dream team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of speculation, President-elect Barack Obama has now confirmed that his Secretary of State will be his arch-rival for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton. Now three months ago, when Clinton gave her endorsement speech at the Democratic National Convention, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/08\/the_american_presidential_elec_52.html\">a posting<\/a> which argued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I was Barack Obama, I would promise that &#8211; if she and Bill are really seen to deliver for him in the general election &#8211; when he enters the White House she will be put in charge of health care reform to complete the task she started during her husband&#8217;s presidency.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly no deal was done at the time but perhaps Hillary and Bill got the message. I was wrong about the actual post offered Hillary, but heh I was on the right lines. Maybe Barack reads NightHawk &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of speculation, President-elect Barack Obama has now confirmed that his Secretary of State will be his arch-rival for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton. Now three months ago, when Clinton gave her endorsement speech at the Democratic National Convention, I did a posting which argued: &#8220;If I was Barack Obama, I would promise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}