{"id":1399,"date":"2007-10-02T23:19:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/bush-clinton-bush-clinton-who-needs-elections\/1399\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T23:19:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T23:19:37","slug":"bush-clinton-bush-clinton-who-needs-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/bush-clinton-bush-clinton-who-needs-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton &#8230; Who Needs Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly &#8211; and FINALLY &#8211; people are talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/story\/_a\/2-party-system-seems-like-a-2-family\/n20070928104209990013\">problem of presidential dynasties<\/a> here in America. The possibility of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton (up to 28 years of 2-family rule) is looming with Hillary on the rise. (Add to that 8 run-up years of Bush the Father as VP to Reagan.)<\/p>\n<p>I hate to sound like a smarty pants. But why not? Here is a commentary I taped for CBS Sunday Morning a year and a half ago on this subject. (Hence the references to Jeb Bush as candidate.) Forgive the over-enunciation and the annoying billowy shirt. I was new on the job:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lr0TkxReKuk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lr0TkxReKuk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.aol.com\/newsbloggers\/2007\/09\/28\/bush-clinton-bush-clinton-who-needs-elections\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly &#8211; and FINALLY &#8211; people are talking about the problem of presidential dynasties here in America. The possibility of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton (up to 28 years of 2-family rule) is looming with Hillary on the rise. (Add to that 8 run-up years of Bush the Father as VP to Reagan.) I hate to sound like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-1399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}