{"id":4855,"date":"2008-08-29T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2008-08-29T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T20:19:49","slug":"monty-python-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/monty-python-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"What was McCain thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/26457563#26457563\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. (Skip the first 8 minutes, it&#8217;s just the old man rambling.) She&#8217;s young, good-looking, inexperienced, a bit ideological, and a member of a marginal group; just like Barack Obama, actually. But she&#8217;s running for VP, not to be the big dog. She&#8217;s not at all embarrassing, not a Katherine Harris, Harriet Miers, or Dan Quayle. All in all, a good contrast to Biden who&#8217;s tainted with the scent of corruption. <\/p>\n<p>This just might work for McCain.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: But seriously, what was McCain thinking? Palin is a nice woman, but there&#8217;s no way in hell she should be allowed inside the White House if not on a tour. McCain has effectively conceded the election. Welcome to the Oval Office, President Obama, listen to Sen. Biden carefully and don&#8217;t screw too many things up.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm. (Skip the first 8 minutes, it&#8217;s just the old man rambling.) She&#8217;s young, good-looking, inexperienced, a bit ideological, and a member of a marginal group; just like Barack Obama, actually. But she&#8217;s running for VP, not to be the big dog. She&#8217;s not at all embarrassing, not a Katherine Harris, Harriet Miers, or Dan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/monty-python-vp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What was McCain thinking?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1gj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}