{"id":2466,"date":"2008-03-14T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/calm-and-measured\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:33:14","slug":"calm-and-measured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/calm-and-measured\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm and Measured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:31C7882A-CF45-4fcc-A614-7A5A52E598FF:500fe802-1e7b-4381-bb8a-70c360c222f5\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/Ink863694178688.png\" title=\"Ink Generated with Ink Blog Plugin\"\/> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Obama laughs at [Clinton&#8217;s] contention. <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We were told that these contests would not count,&#8221; he tells Steve Inskeep. &#8220;Sen. Clinton agreed.<\/strong> Our name was taken off the ballot in Michigan, and in Florida we did no campaigning. Now, if people think that that is a normal democratic way of running an election, then that&#8217;s not the America that I know.&#8221; &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, we&#8217;re going to abide by whatever the Democratic National Committee determines is fair,&#8221; he says. <strong>&#8220;But the important point is &#8230; that we agreed not to participate in this process. Not just me, but Sen. Clinton did as well. If you ask my 6-year-old, should that election count, she would probably be able to figure out that that&#8217;s not fair.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=88212282&amp;ft=1&amp;f=3\">NPR: Obama: Michigan, Florida Do-Overs &#8216;Not Realistic&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama laughs at [Clinton&#8217;s] contention. &#8220;We were told that these contests would not count,&#8221; he tells Steve Inskeep. &#8220;Sen. Clinton agreed. Our name was taken off the ballot in Michigan, and in Florida we did no campaigning. Now, if people think that that is a normal democratic way of running an election, then that&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/calm-and-measured\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calm and Measured<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}