{"id":12436,"date":"2016-01-18T13:10:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2016-01-18T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:10:50","slug":"hillary-says-shell-ask-for-bills-advice-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12436","title":{"rendered":"Hillary says she&#8217;ll ask for Bill&#8217;s advice . . . duh?"},"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>This might qualify is a dumb question.<\/p>\n<p>It came Sunday night during the Democratic Party presidential debate and the questioner wondered whether Hillary Rodham Clinton would seek the advice of the 42nd president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! Do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2016\/01\/17\/hillary_clinton_you_bet_i_am_going_to_ask_for_and_use_bill_clintons_advice.html\">Why wouldn&#8217;t she?<\/a>\u00a0Bill Clinton left office in January 2001 with a 65 percent approval rating, and that was <em>after<\/em> he&#8217;d been impeached by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>I totally understand that the former president had, um, some <em>issues<\/em> relating to a certain White House intern. I&#8217;m also aware of the official reason for the impeachment, that he committed perjury to a federal grand jury that asked him directly about the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s get real here. Bill Clinton&#8217;s presidency was a rousing success. Was it totally free of tragedy? Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the former first lady\/U.S. senator\/secretary of state is elected this November as the nation&#8217;s 45th president, she&#8217;d be stupid beyond belief not to enlist the advice of her husband.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton presided over eight years of superb economic growth in this country. The president &#8212; with support from Congress &#8212; managed to balance the federal budget and left office with the budget operating <em>in the black<\/em> for the first time since seemingly forever.<\/p>\n<p>Is the former president&#8217;s advice worth obtaining?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah,\u00a0I kind of think so.<\/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>This might qualify is a dumb question. It came Sunday night during the Democratic Party presidential debate and the questioner wondered whether Hillary Rodham Clinton would seek the advice of the 42nd president of the United States. Wow! Do you think? Why wouldn&#8217;t she?\u00a0Bill Clinton left office in January 2001 with a 65 percent approval &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hillary says she&#8217;ll ask for Bill&#8217;s advice . . . duh?<\/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":[631,1035,5872,2139,5246],"class_list":["post-12436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-clinton-impeachment","tag-federal-budget-deficit","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436","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=12436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12438,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions\/12438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}