{"id":4557,"date":"2008-01-22T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/how-to-let-your-opponent-win\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T07:17:00","slug":"how-to-let-your-opponent-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/how-to-let-your-opponent-win\/","title":{"rendered":"How to let your opponent win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Away from the outsourcing topic, I watched the Democratic debate (or should I say &quot;slugfest&quot;) last night on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a>.&nbsp; Being a citizen of the old country, I am used to opposing political parties viciously going at each other&#8230; but <em>never<\/em> the politicians from the same party.&nbsp; If two British MPs (Members of Parliament) from the same party threw accusations at each other in public anything like Obama and Clinton were doing, their party would have thrown them out, because the only winners from my perspective were the leading Republican candidates.&nbsp; The Democrats should be celebrating the fact they have, for the first time, both the first African American and woman candidates leading the race for their presidential nominations, but instead we are subjected to them trawling through each others&#8217; backgrounds on live TV digging up dirt on each other.<\/p>\n<p>Please can we see their campaign leaders clean up their act for the remainder of the campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Away from the outsourcing topic, I watched the Democratic debate (or should I say &quot;slugfest&quot;) last night on CNN.&nbsp; Being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to let your opponent win - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/how-to-let-your-opponent-win\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to let your opponent win - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Away from the outsourcing topic, I watched the Democratic debate (or should I say &quot;slugfest&quot;) last night on CNN.&nbsp; 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