{"id":108,"date":"2008-03-12T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T22:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-03-12T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:57:31","slug":"ferraro-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/ferraro-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferraro steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is reporting that <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/03\/12\/ferraro.comments\/index.html\">Geraldine Ferraro<\/a> has stepped down from her post in the Clinton campaign. The CNN story quotes remarks by Ferraro and Ronald Reagan as reported in a 1988 <i>Washington Post<\/i> article. According to the <i>Post<\/i> Ferraro&#8217;s remarks then about Jackson were very similar to her remarks yesterday about Obama, and Reagan claimed that the press &#8220;did not ask Jackson tough questions because of his race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&#8217;s reply when questioned about Ferraro&#8217;s remarks echoed her reply to CBS reporters about remarks by her Texas supporter, Adelfa Callejo: &#8220;People get to express their opinions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; unless the people in question are Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan, and Clinton has an opportunity to score some points against anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is reporting that Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her post in the Clinton campaign. The CNN story quotes remarks by Ferraro and Ronald Reagan as reported in a 1988 Washington Post article. According to the Post Ferraro&#8217;s remarks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/ferraro-steps-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}