{"id":3008,"date":"2008-07-22T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T20:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/07\/22\/while-obama-sorts-through-his-vice-presidential-list\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T20:59:01","slug":"while-obama-sorts-through-his-vice-presidential-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/07\/22\/while-obama-sorts-through-his-vice-presidential-list\/","title":{"rendered":"While Obama sorts through his Vice Presidential List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reportedly Obama is kicking around two names for his vice-presidential pick right about now.\u00c2\u00a0 One is Evan Bayh.\u00c2\u00a0 The other is Sam Nunn.<\/p>\n<p>These two names spark some more names he might want to consider.<\/p>\n<p>#1:\u00c2\u00a0 Zell Miller.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Begala recommened Al Gore pick him in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>#2:\u00c2\u00a0 Toby Keith.\u00c2\u00a0 A registered Democrat who has publicly placed his politics as somewhere to the right of Willie Nelson&#8217;s and somewhere to the left of Ted Nugent.<\/p>\n<p>#3:\u00c2\u00a0 Joseph L&#8230; Nah, too obvious.<\/p>\n<p>#4:\u00c2\u00a0 I guess if you&#8217;re thinking in terms of &#8220;Wise Old Statesman&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0from the\u00c2\u00a0political past\u00c2\u00a0with that Sam Nunn thought, um&#8230; Walter Mondale.\u00c2\u00a0 Or&#8230; Better yet, Geraldine Ferraro!<\/p>\n<p>On that score, with the additional bonus of &#8220;doubl[ing] down the brand&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0#5:\u00c2\u00a0 Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n<p>One more wild-card idea.\u00c2\u00a0 #6: Beige Placebo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reportedly Obama is kicking around two names for his vice-presidential pick right about now.\u00c2\u00a0 One is Evan Bayh.\u00c2\u00a0 The other is Sam Nunn. These two names spark some more names he might want to consider. #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Zell Miller.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Begala recommened Al Gore pick him in 2000. #2:\u00c2\u00a0 Toby Keith.\u00c2\u00a0 A registered Democrat who [&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-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","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=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}