{"id":12154,"date":"2015-12-29T02:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2015-12-29T02:37:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T02:37:34","slug":"is-bill-clinton-on-the-16-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12154","title":{"rendered":"Is Bill Clinton on the &#8217;16 ballot?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hillary-clinton.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11375\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hillary-clinton-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"hillary clinton\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hillary-clinton-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hillary-clinton-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/hillary-clinton.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Rodham Clinton says Donald Trump reveals a sexist attitude toward women.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responds by saying that Clinton&#8217;s husband, the 42nd president of the United States, has demonstrated an equally horrible attitude toward women.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump might be facing each other in the 2016 general election, which makes Trump&#8217;s view of women relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s retort about Bill Clinton? Well, is that relevant? It would be if the former president was on the ballot. He&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/12\/28\/donald-trump-takes-on-bill-clintons-behavior-toward-women\/\">And that begs the question.<\/a>\u00a0Why is Trump bringing up the former president&#8217;s well-chronicled, heavily reported, much-discussed and debated inappropriate relationship with that young White House intern?<\/p>\n<p>In my view, it&#8217;s an attempt at political diversion from the issue at hand, which is whether the <em>current<\/em> leading Republican presidential candidate really holds sexist views.<\/p>\n<p>I am fully aware of former President Clinton&#8217;s history. Yes, I also know of the <em>allegations<\/em> of other extramarital relationships.<\/p>\n<p>However, the man ain&#8217;t on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>His wife wants to be the next president.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, his wife has raised the issue of a potential opponent&#8217;s fitness for the job they both want.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Rodham Clinton says Donald Trump reveals a sexist attitude toward women. Trump responds by saying that Clinton&#8217;s husband, the 42nd president of the United States, has demonstrated an equally horrible attitude toward women. So &#8230; Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump might be facing each other in the 2016 general election, which makes Trump&#8217;s view &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Bill Clinton on the &#8217;16 ballot?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[631,1424,2140,2253],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12156,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions\/12156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}