{"id":1604,"date":"2015-07-08T07:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2015-07-08T07:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:35:22","slug":"trump-and-the-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no little opportunism involved, but Hillary Clinton has finally done the obvious &#8212; obliquely <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3949160\/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-immigration-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\">linked Donald Trump to Republican racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying, \u2018Enough, stop it,\u2019 \u201d the Democratic front-runner tells CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know they are all in the same general area on immigration,\u201d she adds of the Republican Party. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to provide a path to citizenship. They range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile towards immigrants, and I\u2019m going to talk about comprehensive immigration reform. I\u2019m going to talk about all of the good, law-abiding, productive members of the immigrant community that I personally know, that I\u2019ve met over the course of my life, that I would like to see have a path to citizenship.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ask yourself a simple, straightforward question: If <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Wallace\" target=\"_blank\">George Wallace<\/a> were around today, would he be campaigning for the Presidency as a Republican or a Democrat?<\/p>\n<p>We all know the answer to that; <i>of course<\/i> he would be a Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no little opportunism involved, but Hillary Clinton has finally done the obvious &#8212; obliquely linked Donald Trump to Republican racism. \u201cI\u2019m very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1604\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}