{"id":6516,"date":"2012-09-06T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2012-09-07T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:10:46","slug":"clintons-argument-be-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/09\/06\/clintons-argument-be-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton&#8217;s argument:  Be patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6517\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/09\/06\/clintons-argument-be-patient\/bill-clinton-dnc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6517\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6517\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6517\" title=\"bill clinton dnc\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/bill-clinton-dnc-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/bill-clinton-dnc-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/bill-clinton-dnc-150x99.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/09\/bill-clinton-dnc.png 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention (Source: DNC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So last night&#8217;s tour-de-force speech by former President Bill Clinton really boils down to one simple argument about the current president, Barack Obama, and his place in modern American history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years,&#8221; Mr. Clinton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, be patient, remember the crisis that Obama confronted, remember who played a big role in creating the mess, and don&#8217;t judge his performance by the usual yardstick.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that Clinton is right that the election will hinge on Americans&#8217; willingness to buy this argument.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Did Obama make a terrible situation significantly better?\u00a0 Did he bungle the recovery?\u00a0 Somewhere in between?\u00a0 How will this issue shape your vote in November?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night&#8217;s tour-de-force speech by former President Bill Clinton really boils down to one [&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\/6516"}],"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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6518,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}