{"id":20671,"date":"2015-05-06T23:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T03:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20671"},"modified":"2015-05-06T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T03:43:51","slug":"first-on-cnn-clinton-democratic-presidential-opponents-to-debate-six-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/05\/06\/first-on-cnn-clinton-democratic-presidential-opponents-to-debate-six-times\/","title":{"rendered":"First on CNN: Clinton, Democratic presidential opponents to debate six times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CNN<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/05\/politics\/2016-democratic-debates-hillary-clinton\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN article\">First on CNN: Clinton, Democratic presidential opponents to debate six times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First the good news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDemocrats will announce Tuesday six presidential primary debates, giving long shots a potential opportunity to share the debate stage with frontrunner Hillary Clinton, CNN has learned.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then the bad news that could be enough to drive me out of the Democratic Party:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe DNC will set the criteria for debate inclusion and any candidate who participates in a separate debate outside of the sanctioning process will be barred from future DNC debates, a Democratic official told CNN.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is this kind of attitude and the desire to lose at all costs, that has me wondering if the days of the Democratic Party are numbered in pretty small numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The nerve of them to try to prevent more debates.  I had a feeling that the DNC has bot been looking out for my interests for a long time.  That&#8217;s why I have cut off all donations to committees of national Democrats.  I will only make contributions to individual candidates.<\/p>\n<p>If they think that I will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee, then they have another think coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has the article First on CNN: Clinton, Democratic presidential opponents to debate six times. First the good news: Democrats will announce Tuesday six presidential primary debates, giving long shots a potential opportunity to share the debate stage with frontrunner Hillary Clinton, CNN has learned. Then the bad news that could be enough to drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20673,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions\/20673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}