{"id":469,"date":"2006-08-22T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/22\/presidential_ho\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T19:11:16","slug":"presidential_ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/22\/presidential_ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Hopefuls Kiss NH\u2019s Arse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten presidential hopefuls, proving again that personal ambition trumps party unity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/la-na-dems20aug20,1,810857.story?coll=la-news-politics-national&#038;track=crosspromo \">have signed a letter<\/a> pledging to campaign in the New Hampshire primary even if it is held at a time not approved by the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The DNC this past weekend set up a revised primary schedule, keeping the Iowa caucuses first, followed a week later with caucuses in Nevada and then the NH primary with the South Carolina primary a week later.  The plan rightfully tries to give minorities &#8212; Hispanics in Nevada\u2019s case and blacks in SC\u2019s case &#8212; a greater voice in selecting the party\u2019s candidates.  Now, if one candidate wins the lily white Iowa and NH races, s\/he becomes much harder to beat.<\/p>\n<p>But NH has been whining about this for months and have threatened to reschedule its primary, maybe as early as late-2007.  <\/p>\n<p>Among the 10 signers is Virginia\u2019s own Mark Warner, who, being a good Democrat, decided to form a circle with the other candidates, raise his rifle and aim.  If the party is stymied by its loyalty to a collection of interests instead of a governing philosophy, it is no less held captive to personal ambition.  No surprise here.  Just Dems being Dems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten presidential hopefuls, proving again that personal ambition trumps party unity, have signed a letter pledging to campaign in the New Hampshire primary even if it is held at a time not approved by the Democratic National Committee. The DNC this past weekend set up a revised primary schedule, keeping the Iowa caucuses first, followed&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/08\/22\/presidential_ho\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}