{"id":17634,"date":"2016-10-19T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17634"},"modified":"2016-10-19T03:37:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T03:37:48","slug":"finally-the-end-of-this-campaign-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17634","title":{"rendered":"Finally &#8230; the end of this campaign is near"},"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\/10\/presidential-debate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17348\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/presidential-debate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"presidential-debate\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/presidential-debate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/presidential-debate.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have family members visiting us and I&#8217;m giving some semi-serious thought to having something of a tailgate party Wednesday in advance of the third &#8212; and thankfully, <em>final<\/em> &#8212; face-off between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Political junkies have heard it already: The campaign is essentially over. Trump scuttled his presidential bid with that hideous recording of him talking about how he feels about women.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now Clinton&#8217;s election to lose. You know, as an aside, I&#8217;ve never been comfortable with that phrase, given that I don&#8217;t really know what it means.<\/p>\n<p>But the two of &#8217;em are going to square off in the final debate. Fox News&#8217;s Chris Wallace will moderate this event. I have complete confidence in his ability to grill them with equal ferocity.<\/p>\n<p>Having said something about a tailgate party, I&#8217;ll now stipulate that the end of this campaign cannot arrive soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a miserable affair.<\/p>\n<p>About the only thing I&#8217;ve learned is that a once-towering American political party has nominated someone &#8212; Trump &#8212; who has proven to be totally, categorically and unequivocally unqualified to become president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; let&#8217;s finish it off.<\/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>We have family members visiting us and I&#8217;m giving some semi-serious thought to having something of a tailgate party Wednesday in advance of the third &#8212; and thankfully, final &#8212; face-off between Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Donald J. Trump. Political junkies have heard it already: The campaign is essentially over. Trump scuttled his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally &#8230; the end of this campaign is near<\/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":[973,1424,1788,1941,2139],"class_list":["post-17634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-chris-wallace","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634","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=17634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}