{"id":3138,"date":"2008-10-21T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/21\/political-ramifications-of-things-we-dont-like-to-think-in-terms-of-political-ramifications\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:14:30","slug":"political-ramifications-of-things-we-dont-like-to-think-in-terms-of-political-ramifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/21\/political-ramifications-of-things-we-dont-like-to-think-in-terms-of-political-ramifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Ramifications of things we don&#8217;t like to think in terms of political ramifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose that there are issues swirling around with the vice presidents &#8212; Biden says something which the McCain \/ Palin ticket is running with, and whose\u00c2\u00a0controversy mostly just exposes it as something of the &#8220;Say Nothing&#8221; nature of a presidential campaign; Palin says something which contradicts McCain&#8217;s position.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, if we are on edge about the existence of a controversy, it does not speak too well for how we think about presidential elections.)<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding that, and while it is uncomfortable to see this, of all things, in crass political horse race terms &#8212; Obama goes off to Hawaii to care for his ailing grandma &#8212; I point out that, like the Powell endorsement, it kills a couple days in the Tedious Presidential Campaign &#8212; ensures a few days of fuzzy news coverage of Obama&#8217;s upbringing &#8212; blazened next to McCain decrying the Socialist Menace.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, in terms of that last post on the Powell endorsement &#8212; another first down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose that there are issues swirling around with the vice presidents &#8212; Biden says something which the McCain \/ Palin ticket is running with, and whose\u00c2\u00a0controversy mostly just exposes it as something of the &#8220;Say Nothing&#8221; nature of a presidential campaign; Palin says something which contradicts McCain&#8217;s position.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, if we are on edge [&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-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}