{"id":12726,"date":"2016-02-02T03:16:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T03:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12726"},"modified":"2016-02-02T03:16:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T03:16:47","slug":"martin-we-hardly-knew-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12726","title":{"rendered":"Martin, we hardly knew ye"},"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\/2016\/02\/150328124446-martin-o-malley-gallery-3-super-169.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12728\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/150328124446-martin-o-malley-gallery-3-super-169-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"150328124446-martin-o-malley-gallery-3-super-169\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/150328124446-martin-o-malley-gallery-3-super-169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/150328124446-martin-o-malley-gallery-3-super-169-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/150328124446-martin-o-malley-gallery-3-super-169-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/150328124446-martin-o-malley-gallery-3-super-169.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How frustrating it must be for Martin O&#8217;Malley.<\/p>\n<p>The former mayor of Baltimore and former governor of Maryland didn&#8217;t register among Iowa Democrats tonight in that state&#8217;s presidential caucus.<\/p>\n<p>All that effort. All the time spent. All the posturing and preening one must do to get people&#8217;s attention when you run for president is all for naught. Nothin&#8217;, man.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley is going to &#8220;suspend&#8221; his campaign, which means it&#8217;s over. Suspension of campaigns is political-speak that enables candidates to keep raising money to pay off debts incurred for their failed efforts.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley couldn&#8217;t outshout Bernie Sanders or outspend Hillary Clinton. So, he&#8217;s about to be gone from the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>His departure won&#8217;t matter much. Clinton and Sanders will fight it out between them.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? To be brutally honest, I cannot think of a single landmark issue that set O&#8217;Malley apart. Clinton&#8217;s toughness and hawkish foreign policy has become her key point; Sanders&#8217; battering of Wall Street and his call for wage equality have become his signature issues.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Malley was just the third candidate in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>He will spin it positively, of course, as politicians do.<\/p>\n<p>The frustration, and the pain, must hurt.<\/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>How frustrating it must be for Martin O&#8217;Malley. The former mayor of Baltimore and former governor of Maryland didn&#8217;t register among Iowa Democrats tonight in that state&#8217;s presidential caucus. All that effort. All the time spent. All the posturing and preening one must do to get people&#8217;s attention when you run for president is all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Martin, we hardly knew ye<\/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":[597,2139,2308,2936],"class_list":["post-12726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iowa-caucus","tag-martin-omalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726","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=12726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12729,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}