{"id":2210,"date":"2007-04-19T23:25:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/19\/john-mccain-wants-to-bomb-iran\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T23:25:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:25:58","slug":"john-mccain-wants-to-bomb-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/19\/john-mccain-wants-to-bomb-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCain wants to bomb Iran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know that old Beach Boys song, &#8216;Bomb Iran&#8217;&#8230; Bomb Bomb Bomb&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg&#038;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edailykos%2Ecom%2F\">So goes the John McCain campaign<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 John McCain has come out to tell those who responded to this quip aghastly to &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/20\/AR2007042000020.html\">&#8220;GET A LIFE!&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nThere appears to be a bit of confusion, found with the Washington Post sentence of <em>While campaigning for president in South Carolina on Wednesday, McCain responded to a question about how to deal with Iran by breaking into the melody of the Beach Boys song &#8220;Barbara Ann&#8221; but changing the lyrics to &#8220;Bomb Iran.&#8221;<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 While obvious, the song was a popular parody played all over morning drive radio during the Iran Hostage Crisis.\u00c2\u00a0 McCain not take credit for &#8220;changing the lyrics&#8221;, as he was not singing &#8220;the old Beach boy song&#8221; but was by&#8230; who knows who?\u00c2\u00a0 Goddamned Wikipedia gives me no answer, except perhaps a flagged for &#8220;Check closely&#8221; page on &#8220;anti-Iran sentiment&#8221; which says it is &#8230; a Beach Boys song.\u00c2\u00a0 Which it can&#8217;t be.\u00c2\u00a0 Can it?<\/p>\n<p>John McCain is not going to be the next president of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know that old Beach Boys song, &#8216;Bomb Iran&#8217;&#8230; Bomb Bomb Bomb&#8230;&#8221; So goes the John McCain campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 John McCain has come out to tell those who responded to this quip aghastly to &#8230; &#8220;GET A LIFE!&#8221; There appears to be a bit of confusion, found with the Washington Post sentence of While campaigning for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}