{"id":228,"date":"2008-05-14T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-05-14T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T17:23:38","slug":"this-is-so-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/this-is-so-embarrassing\/","title":{"rendered":"This is so embarrassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a well-told story about what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/13\/AR2008051302862.html?hpid=topnews\">behind the cameras<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A steep descent brings Clinton&#8217;s plane to Charleston&#8217;s hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane&#8217;s wing. She pretends to spot an old friend in the crowd, points and gives another wave; in fact, she is waving at an aide she had been talking with on the plane minutes earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What most people don&#8217;t consider is the fact that this is normal, not exceptional, presidential politics.  She didn&#8217;t learn to be this kind of an actor just after Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, we all know where she learned the &#8220;point and wave&#8221; trick.  Some people can pull it off brilliantly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/media\/clintonvictory20080205.jpg_ss_20080205234420.jpg\"height=\"120\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Some can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Don Boudreaux had the best depiction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/opinion\/columnists\/boudreaux\/s_534186.html\">what drives a person<\/a> to such ignominy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a well-told story about what&#8217;s behind the cameras: A steep descent brings Clinton&#8217;s plane to Charleston&#8217;s hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane&#8217;s wing. She pretends to spot an old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}