{"id":563,"date":"2008-02-11T08:42:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-02-11T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:10:33","slug":"clinton-or-obama-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Clinton or Obama Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/11\/opinion\/11krugman.html?ref=opinion\">Paul Krugman<\/a> today writes about the visceral hatred among some Democrats for Hillary Clinton:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why, then, is there so much venom out there?<\/p>\n<p>I won&rsquo;t try for fake evenhandedness here: <strong>most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody<\/strong>. I&rsquo;m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We&rsquo;ve already had that from the Bush administration &mdash; remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don&rsquo;t want to go there again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This characterization of Obama supporters seems rather loopy, in particular because Krugman doesn&#39;t even bother with evidence.&nbsp; That&#39;s a shame.&nbsp; For even if you think that Krugman is wrong, he generally tries to be right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman today writes about the visceral hatred among some Democrats for Hillary Clinton: Why, then, is there so much venom out there? I won&rsquo;t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I&rsquo;m not the first to point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clinton or Obama Rules<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,58,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad-hominem-abusive","category-lack-of-evidence","category-krugman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}