{"id":22375,"date":"2015-10-14T05:45:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T09:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2015-10-14T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:34:02","slug":"democratic-debate-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/10\/democratic-debate-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic debate post-mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Well, who won the Democratic debate?\u00a0 Did anything or any one change your mind?\u00a0 How did the Democrats do as compared to the Republicans?\u00a0 Who, among all of these throngs, would you vote for?\u00a0 Who would you definitely not vote for?<\/p>\n<p>After the jump, some thoughts about the debate and the Democratic slate from me.<!--more-->Who would be the best commander-in-chief, while being the most judicious in using military force?\u00a0 Jim Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Who would be the best protector of civil liberties, including the civil liberty of owning a firearm?\u00a0 Jim Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Who would be the best in eliminating political paralysis by being able to work with Republicans instead of considering them, in the words of Hillary Clinton, her \u201cenemy\u201d?\u00a0 Jim Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Which candidate was not like the others, which one didn\u2019t belong?\u00a0 Jim Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Which candidate came across most poorly?\u00a0 Lincoln Chafee.<\/p>\n<p>Which candidate is least likely to win the nomination?\u00a0 Jim Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Which candidate is now the sure nominee?\u00a0 Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, who won the Democratic debate?\u00a0 Did anything or any one change your mind?\u00a0 How did the Democrats do as compared to the Republicans?\u00a0 Who, among all of these throngs, would you vote for?\u00a0 Who would you definitely not vote for? 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