{"id":4909,"date":"2011-10-04T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2011-10-05T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T12:54:01","slug":"did-president-obama-just-dodge-a-political-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/04\/did-president-obama-just-dodge-a-political-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Did President Obama just dodge a political bullet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched New Jersey Governor Chris Christie give a pass on the 2012 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very Mario Cuomo like experience in that some politicians never look more presidential than when announcing that they&#8217;re not running for president.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously:\u00a0 As Gov. Christie gave his party a firm No, it was a performance that showed just how much difficulty President Barack Obama would have had competing with this particular Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Christy sounded grounded, sane, focused, and committed to good governance.\u00a0 He also just seemed comfortable in his own skin.\u00a0 That means a lot when you&#8217;re heading out for the long campaign slog.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to slump, falling into a tie with&#8221;second-tier&#8221; GOP candidate Herman Cain.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to a final quick observation:\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of fun to imagine a world in which an African American claims the Republican presidential nomination to run against Mr. Obama, right?<\/p>\n<p>Could it happen?\u00a0 That may be up to Mitt Romney.\u00a0 As always,k your comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched New Jersey Governor Chris Christie give a pass on the 2012 presidential race. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6550,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}