{"id":194424,"date":"2008-09-24T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/24\/mccain-suspends-campaign\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T04:07:00","slug":"mccain-suspends-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/24\/mccain-suspends-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain &#8220;Suspends&#8221; Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that he believes that <del>his campaign<\/del> the country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/09\/24\/campaign.wrap\/index.html\">needs him to go down to Washington so that he can inject politics into the matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is also calling for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/25\/us\/politics\/25mccain.html?ref=business\">delay in the first debate<\/a>, doubtless because with the financial crisis, there will <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">have to<\/span> be some questions asked on the economy, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE48N8AV20080924\">Obama is having none of this<\/a>, noting that multi-tasking and delegation are crucial skills for a president.<\/p>\n<p>My theory is that he knows that no one is concerned about foreign policy right now, so he wants the foreign policy debate delayed until people will pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also certain that the economy <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">would<\/span> come up in the debate, even with the ostensible focus on foreign policy, so he&#8217;s looking to cut and run.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it may just all be a ploy to distract people from Sarah Palin&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">disasterous<\/span> interview with Katie Couric&#8230;&#8230;How the hell do you get owned in an interview by the mistress of softball questions anyway?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img511.imageshack.us\/img511\/4715\/timeout2060298nb2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/thismodernworld.com\/4484\">This Modern World<\/a> for the pic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that he believes that his campaign the country needs him to go down to Washington so that he can inject politics into the matter. He is also calling for a delay in the first debate, doubtless because with the financial crisis, there will have to be some questions asked on the economy, though &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,973,1228,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194424"}],"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=194424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}