{"id":1370,"date":"2007-03-04T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/will-on-hill\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T14:14:20","slug":"will-on-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/will-on-hill","title":{"rendered":"Will on Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Will on the, um, evitability of Hillary Clinton, boredom, and the bs of campaign finance reform<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton has said, regarding presidential candidates, that Republicans like to fall in line and Democrats like to fall in love. Which explains the Clinton campaign’s palpable panic: Democrats have<\/em> fallen in love, but not with her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Will on the, um, evitability of Hillary Clinton, boredom, and the bs of campaign finance reform: Bill Clinton has said, regarding presidential candidates, that Republicans like to fall in line and Democrats like to fall in love. Which explains the Clinton campaign’s palpable panic: Democrats have fallen in love, but not with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-m6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2087,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/soft-side-successfully-deployed-sir","url_meta":{"origin":1370,"position":0},"title":"Soft side successfully deployed, sir!","author":"Gil","date":"June 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that Obama has crossed the delegate finish-line for the Democratic nomination . . . it's time for the finger-pointing! 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