{"id":217,"date":"2016-08-03T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2016-08-03T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:25:13","slug":"silly-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Silly Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political silly season is well under way and the lame stream media is working overtime on Hillary\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary gets a couple of point bump in certain polls after the Democratic Convention and the media describes it as a surge. On the other hand Trump is villainized after trading barbs with the parents of a serviceman who lost his life in the Middle East, the media using words such as imploding and in turmoil to describe the Republican campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Obama tries to make the case that this is the first time in history that we have a presidential candidate that is grossly unqualified to be commander in chief\u2026 Must be he has forgotten all those who made the same claim about him 8 years ago\u2026 Obama started running for President after 6 months in the US Senate. He was never qualified to be commander in chief (still isn\u2019t in my opinion), but that didn\u2019t matter to the general population then and something tells me it isn\u2019t going to matter now.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I wish for early in this presidential election cycle is for Trump to realize that he can pave his own road to the White House if only he can stop feeding the media with damming sound bites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political silly season is well under way and the lame stream media is working overtime on Hillary\u2019s election campaign. Hillary gets a couple of point bump in certain polls after the Democratic Convention and the media describes it as a surge. On the other hand Trump is villainized after trading barbs with the parents of a serviceman who lost his life in the Middle East, the media using words such as imploding and in turmoil to describe the Republican campaign. Obama tries to make the case that this is the first time in history that we have a presidential candidate that is grossly unqualified to be commander in chief\u2026 Must be he has forgotten all those who made the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-is","category-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}