{"id":771,"date":"2008-08-11T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2008-08-11T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:50:18","slug":"hawaii-4-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii 4-11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's a point about narrative.  Yesterday on ABC's "This Week" Cokie Roberts said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ROBERTS: Yeah, that he has certainly come nowhere near closing the deal. As we've talked about before, in this year that should be such a Democratic year given all the other indices, he is tied in the polls and stage-sided in the polls and going off this week to a vacation in Hawaii —<\/strong><\/p>\n

VICTORIA CLARKE (former Pentagon spokeswoman): Right.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: — does not make any sense whatsoever.<\/strong> I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place.<\/strong> He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he's going to take a vacation at this time.<\/p>\n

CLARKE: Well, and —<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: And I just think that, you know, this is not the time to do that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Last I checked, Hawaii is a state in the Union (with a governor, a couple of senators, etc).  It also happens to be the state where Obama was born, which fact makes him eligible to run for President of the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here's a point about narrative.  Yesterday on ABC's "This Week" Cokie Roberts said: ROBERTS: Yeah, that he has certainly come nowhere near closing the deal. As we've talked about before, in this year that should be such a Democratic year given all the other indices, he is tied in the polls and stage-sided in the … Continue reading Hawaii 4-11<\/span> →<\/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":[54],"tags":[246,252,254,255,253],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-that-are-false","tag-barack-obama","tag-cokie-roberts","tag-elitism","tag-exotic","tag-hawaii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}