{"id":94881,"date":"2019-11-06T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94881"},"modified":"2019-11-06T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:29:11","slug":"sajith-and-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/06\/sajith-and-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith and Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>S. Jayawardene<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The main thrust of the Presidential candidate Sajith\nPremadasa&#8217;s oratory is on his youth and excellent health. Probably he is unique\nin the world to bank his electoral campaign on such a note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it is a subtle pointer towards his main rival in\nthe contest, Gotabaya Rajapaksha&#8217;s age and heart medical condition is a moot\npoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However he looks to be on losing ground on both accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahathir Mohamad was elected as the Prime Minister of\nMalaysia at the ripe age of 93 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is well known to be an efficient and skilful\npolitician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John F Kennedy had a serious medical condition called\nAddison&#8217;s Disease and Abraham Lincoln was suspected of having inherited a\ncondition called Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roosevelt was paralysed in both legs after he got polio\nat the age of 39 years well before he became the President. His wife Eleanor\nonce said the disease was a blessing in disguise because it gave him strength\nand courage he had not had before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also important specially if SP is Buddhist believing\non the impermanence of life and matter not to boast on such vicissitude of\nlife. You never know what is around the corner taking a lesson from his\nfather&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has witnessed the tragedy of having a\nPresident and a Prime Minister who do not see eye to eye. Do we want to\nexperience such a disaster again? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No doubt the scenario will be repeated probably much\nworse if SP is elected President with Ranil firmly confirmed himself as his PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder whether SP has brought in a novelty to his platforms\nsinging and celebrating with the crowd raising both hands and beating his chest\nin an evangelical form by design or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nS. Jayawardene\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. Jayawardene The main thrust of the Presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa&#8217;s oratory is on his youth and excellent health. Probably he is unique in the world to bank his electoral campaign on such a note. Whether it is a subtle pointer towards his main rival in the contest, Gotabaya Rajapaksha&#8217;s age and heart medical condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}