{"id":341,"date":"2004-07-26T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T01:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2004-07-26T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T01:19:59","slug":"clinton-knocks-the-cover-off-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Knocks the Cover off the Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ClintonDNC.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I&#8217;ve never been a fan and never much enjoyed listening to him speak, but tonight &#8212; looking leaner and sounding sharper than I&#8217;ve ever seen him &#8212; Bill Clinton&#8217;s speech at the DNC Convention was nothing less than extraordinary. Had he been that sharp when <i>he<\/i> was running for President, he might have tricked me into voting for him!<\/p>\n<p>Granted, I only caught the last 20 minutes or so (hope to catch more later on the repeats, along with Gore, Carter, etc.), but the most quotable phrase from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,127101,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">his stem-winder tonight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;They tell you to be afraid of Kerry and Edwards because they won&#8217;t stand up for terror. But don&#8217;t you believe them, strength and wisdom are not opposing values.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>There was more notable, but I&#8217;ll have to get back to you with some of the quotes.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, since so few of the networks and cable &#8220;news&#8221; channels are covering the convention itself (versus the convention going on down in the hall while Bill O&#8217;Reilly talks about Lacy Peterson up in the Fox Booth at the convention), you can check <a href=\"http:\/\/C-Span.org\" target=\"_blank\">C-Span.org<\/a> anytime video of the full uncut speeches. If you can stand it.<\/p>\n<p>C-Span itself should be noted for actually just playing the convention without all the bullshit. And for those of us on the West Coast, the nightly repeats are much appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan and never much enjoyed listening to him speak, but tonight &#8212; looking leaner and sounding sharper than I&#8217;ve ever seen him &#8212; Bill Clinton&#8217;s speech at the DNC Convention was nothing less than extraordinary. Had he been that sharp when he was running for President, he might have tricked me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}