{"id":194667,"date":"2008-08-29T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/29\/john-mccain-picks-dick-cheney-in-drag\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T17:30:00","slug":"john-mccain-picks-dick-cheney-in-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/29\/john-mccain-picks-dick-cheney-in-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCain Picks Dick Cheney in Drag*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we know about Sarah Palin, McCain&#8217;s VP pick is that she&#8217;s less corrupt than you average Alaska Republican.  That&#8217;s not saying all that much.<\/p>\n<p>She <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">does<\/span> have a scandal all her own though, specifically that she ordered the head of the Alaska state police to fire her ex-brother-in-law after a messy custody battle with her sister, more details <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=palin\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is Valeria Plame without the national security aspects.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that the Democrats are talking about 24-7 for the next few days, but it&#8217;s unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Don&#8217;t complain.  My first thought was, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dick Cheney with t*ts<\/span>&#8220;, which is even a worse image.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Oops&#8230;.sorry for that image.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we know about Sarah Palin, McCain&#8217;s VP pick is that she&#8217;s less corrupt than you average Alaska Republican. That&#8217;s not saying all that much. She does have a scandal all her own though, specifically that she ordered the head of the Alaska state police to fire her ex-brother-in-law after a messy custody battle with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1228,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194667"}],"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=194667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}