{"id":16790,"date":"2018-07-24T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16790"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:37:33","slug":"presidential-campaign-2020-eric-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/24\/presidential-campaign-2020-eric-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Campaign 2020: Eric Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s first Attorney General, Eric Holder, appeared on <em><strong>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/strong><\/em> last night, and, watching it this morning, I was impressed by Mr. Holder&#8217;s ability to communicate. My Arts Editor commented that he seems to be sincere and not holding anything back, and I thought he seemed to have a good grasp on the fundamental nature of American governmental structures, although of course his remarks were constricted by the format. His remark about telling the President &#8216;no&#8217; was the correct answer, and of course the current occupant of the White House won&#8217;t understand that.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted to considering a Presidential run but pronounced the mid-terms to be on the top of his priority list, as well he might. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if he runs, and if the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ATF_gunwalking_scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fast and Furious<\/a>&#8221; scandal is a taint or not on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s first Attorney General, Eric Holder, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, and, watching it this morning, I was impressed by Mr. Holder&#8217;s ability to communicate. My Arts Editor commented that he seems to be sincere and not holding anything back, and I thought he \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/24\/presidential-campaign-2020-eric-holder\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24804,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790\/revisions\/24804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}