{"id":4181,"date":"2008-02-19T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/19\/safe-predictions\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T18:19:30","slug":"safe-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"Safe Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/lefarkins.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/prediction-time.html\">Lawyers, Guns and Money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prediction 1: If Obama wins the nomination and loses to McCain, Clinton supporters will angrily claim vindication, saying that it was obvious all along that Obama couldn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction 2: If Clinton wins the nomination and loses to McCain, Obama supporters will angrily claim vindication, saying that it was obvious all along that Clinton couldn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction 3: Whichever of prediction 1 or 2 comes to pass, the analysis therein will quickly take on the appearance of settled fact, such that two years down the line everyone will remember that it was obvious all along that Clinton\/Obama couldn&#8217;t win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I add Prediction 4: If Obama\/Clinton wins, then two years down the line everyone will remember that it was obvious all along that McCain couldn&#8217;t win, and back in February 2008 no one was even considering the possibility that McCain could win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lawyers, Guns and Money: Prediction 1: If Obama wins the nomination and loses to McCain, Clinton supporters will angrily claim vindication, saying that it was obvious all along that Obama couldn&#8217;t win. Prediction 2: If Clinton wins the nomination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4181\">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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}