{"id":194330,"date":"2008-10-04T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/04\/this-is-so-undeniably-cynical-and-dishonest\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T23:53:00","slug":"this-is-so-undeniably-cynical-and-dishonest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/04\/this-is-so-undeniably-cynical-and-dishonest\/","title":{"rendered":"This is So Undeniably Cynical and Dishonest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the McCain campaign wants Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston to have an October wedding, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article4837644.ece\">they think that it would have a positive impact on their campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one \u2014 the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fianc\u00e9 before the November 4 election.<\/p>\n<p>Inside John McCain\u2019s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. \u201cIt would be fantastic,\u201d said a McCain insider. \u201cYou would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Lily Tomlin says, &#8220;No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for John Sidney McCain III and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/primebuzz.kcstar.com\/?q=node\/14793\">the love birds are looking at a Summer wedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the McCain campaign wants Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston to have an October wedding, because they think that it would have a positive impact on their campaign: In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one \u2014 the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1228,977,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-presidential-campaign","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}