{"id":5794,"date":"2010-06-18T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2010-06-18T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:32:25","slug":"pressure-on-hillary-to-challenge-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5794\/pressure-on-hillary-to-challenge-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure on Hillary to Challenge Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With most of the 2012 presidential speculation focusing on the Republican side, it\u2019s interesting to read Peggy Noonan publicly musing about the possibility of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704289504575313181930072638.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories \" target=\"_blank\">Democratic insiders pressuring the Secretary of State to challenge President Obama<\/a> for the party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, it makes sense.\u00a0 Reality or not, Hillary Clinton creates the impression that she would be obsessively involved with a crisis like the Gulf Oil Spill.\u00a0 Unlike Obama, it\u2019s hard to imagine her projecting anything other than complete control of the situation.\u00a0 She is, after all, the grade school student who wrote a sixty-page term paper, and who infamously crafted her version of \u201ccomprehensive health care\u201d reform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=98884027 \" target=\"_blank\">without troubling members of Congress for their input<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For all his pretensions at remaking America in his own Progressive image, President Obama shows startling apathy for the nitty gritty of governance.\u00a0 Americans need nitty gritty right now.\u00a0 We need someone to show us that despite all its inefficiencies, government can still be <em>made<\/em> to work when it is absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n<p>For Democrats, the person most able to do it may be just off stage left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With most of the 2012 presidential speculation focusing on the Republican side, it\u2019s interesting to read Peggy Noonan publicly musing about the possibility of Democratic insiders pressuring the Secretary of State to challenge President Obama for the party\u2019s nomination. And yet, it makes sense.\u00a0 Reality or not, Hillary Clinton creates the impression that she would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,143,1320,118],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-gulf-oil-spill","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5798,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}