{"id":442,"date":"2006-08-08T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/pundit-likes-clintonrichardson-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T13:46:00","slug":"pundit-likes-clintonrichardson-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/pundit-likes-clintonrichardson-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Pundit likes Clinton\/Richardson in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/RichardsonWatch.5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/RichardsonWatch.4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Democratic pundit and CNN commentator Paul Begala likes Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party\u2019s 2008 presidential nominee, and Bill Richardson as the vice presidential nominee, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hprsite.squarespace.com\/surviving-the-crossfire-112005\/2006\/5\/7\/surviving-the-crossfire.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Political Review<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Begala, a Bill Clinton apologist, said during an interview with the review that the former president \u201cmade us more the party of middle-class values and aspirations, very much made us the party of the poor and lifting people up into the middle class.\u201d He spoke of Bill Clinton as a smart man who \u201cnever talked down to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Many say similar things about <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI think too many Democrats today have learned none of those lessons,\u201d Begala said. \u201cThey seem more concerned with elites, they seem to look down on working-class people, and particularly seem to be either disengaged or outright contemptuous of the broadly shared religious and social values in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Regardless of whether you\u2019re a fan of our governor, it\u2019s just another sign that he may be headed for higher office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic pundit and CNN commentator Paul Begala likes Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party\u2019s 2008 presidential nominee, and Bill Richardson as the vice presidential nominee, according to the Harvard Political Review. Begala, a Bill Clinton apologist, said during an interview with the review that the former president \u201cmade us more the party of middle-class values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}