{"id":102,"date":"2007-02-25T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/102"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:36:34","slug":"rumors-gossip-and-sarcasm-about-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/102","title":{"rendered":"Rumors, Gossip, and Sarcasm about 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still too early for any kind of meaningful speculation about 2008, so I will only offer rumors, gossip, and sarcasm.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a rumor going around that if Al Gore wins the Oscar tonight, he&#8217;s going to announce his candidacy for President.  I&#8217;d love to see Al Gore run, but he really doesn&#8217;t seem interested.  I do think he&#8217;s going to win the Oscar though.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side, Giuliani&#8217;s burning up the polls, and I think he&#8217;d mop up in the general election.  I can&#8217;t see myself voting for him in the general, though we could do a lot worse.  But once the primaries get going and conservative voters learn who he is and what he stands for, he&#8217;s not going to have, for lack of a better word, a prayer of winning the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>To clarify earlier comments, I like both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  I just don&#8217;t think either of them is going to be our next president.  Biden and Edwards are both starting to look pretty good, and, okay fine, I am still holding out hope that Gore will still decide to run.  Is that so wrong?<\/p>\n<p>But I did enjoy this satirical take on the typical criticism of Hillary Clinton from <em>The Onion<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"onion_embed headline\"><a class=\"img\" target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/48757?utm_source=Distributed&#038;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&#038;utm_campaign=Widgets\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/files\/images\/OpEd-Hillary-Clinton-C.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton Is Too Ambitious To Be The First Female President\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content?utm_source=Distributed&#038;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&#038;utm_campaign=Widgets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/onion\/assets\/logos\/onion_super_tiny.png\" width=\"92\" height=\"12\" alt=\"The Onion\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:15px!important;line-height:14px!important;\"><a target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/48757?utm_source=Distributed&#038;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&#038;utm_campaign=Widgets\" >Hillary Clinton Is Too Ambitious To Be The First Female President<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\">.onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline;}.onion_embed a.img {float: left !important;margin: 0 5px 0 0 !important;width: 66px;display: block;overflow: hidden !important;}.onion_embed a.img img {border: 1px solid #222 !important;;width: 64px;;padding: 0 !important;;}.onion_embed h2 {line-height: 2px;;clear: none;;margin: 0 !important;padding: 0 !important;}.onion_embed h3 {line-height: 16px;font: bold 16px arial, sans-serif !important;margin: 3px 0 0 0 !important;padding: 0 !important;}.onion_embed h3 a {line-height: 16px !important;;color: rgb(0, 51, 102) !important;font: bold 16px arial, sans-serif !important;text-decoration: none !important;display: inline !important;;float: none !important;;text-transform: capitalize !important;}.onion_embed h3 a:hover {text-decoration: underline !important;color: rgb(204, 51, 51) !important;}.onion_embed p {color: #000 !important;;font: normal 11px\/ 11px arial, sans-serif !important;;margin: 2px 0 0 0 !important;;padding: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline !important;;float: none !important;}<\/style>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/statistics.theonion.com\/b\/ss\/theonionprod\/1\/H.6--NS\/1234567?pe=lnk_d&#038;pev2=Hillary%20Clinton%20Is%20Too%20Ambitious%20To%20Be%20The%20First%20Female%20President&#038;pev1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Fnode%2F48757%3Futm_source%3DDistributed%26utm_medium%3DEmbedded%252BHTML%26utm_campaign%3DWidgets\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"display:none;\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--2f72a2812840f33095394234f23bd9d5--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still too early for any kind of meaningful speculation about 2008, so I will only offer rumors, gossip, and sarcasm. There&#8217;s a rumor going around that if Al Gore wins the Oscar tonight, he&#8217;s going to announce his candidacy for President. I&#8217;d love to see Al Gore run, but he really doesn&#8217;t seem interested. 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