{"id":5971,"date":"2014-06-21T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2014-06-21T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T16:02:11","slug":"pay-us-a-visit-mme-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5971","title":{"rendered":"Pay us a visit, Mme. Secretary"},"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>Just thinking out loud here.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the reporting on Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s book tour brings to mind a 2008 campaign stop her husband, the former president of the United States, made here on her behalf &#8212; in Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, of all places.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton came to campaign for his wife as she fought Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>He packed the Grand Plaza Ballroom at the Amarillo Civic Center. Indeed, it overflowed. A lot of Republicans attended the event just to get a glimpse of the 42nd president and to determine for themselves if he is as charismatic as everyone says he is.<\/p>\n<p>President Clinton didn&#8217;t disappoint anyone, Republican or Democrat. Clinton would win the Democratic primary that year, but eventually lose the nomination fight to Obama.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/06\/20\/hillary-clinton-book-tour-comes-austin\/<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d bet real U.S. money that Hillary Clinton would get a smashing reception here if she chose to come to Amarillo to hype her new book, &#8220;Hard Choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a possible, if not probable, candidate for president in 2016. There would be interest in that campaign as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tribune reported on her book-tour stop in Austin, which everyone knew she&#8217;d make. Austin is one of the last Democratic bastions left in Texas. It&#8217;s a no-brainer for her go there and visit with friendly audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Why not pay a visit to us here, on the High Plains of Texas, where no one would <em>expect<\/em> her to go?<\/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>Just thinking out loud here. Watching the reporting on Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s book tour brings to mind a 2008 campaign stop her husband, the former president of the United States, made here on her behalf &#8212; in Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, of all places. Bill Clinton came to campaign for his wife as she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pay us a visit, Mme. Secretary<\/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":[1],"tags":[507,631,2059,2140],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-austin-texas","tag-bill-clinton","tag-hard-choices","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","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=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}