{"id":194767,"date":"2008-08-20T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/not-dick-cheney-sargent-shriver\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T22:32:00","slug":"not-dick-cheney-sargent-shriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/not-dick-cheney-sargent-shriver\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Dick Cheney, Sargent Shriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is a rumor that <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/20\/caroline-kennedy-floated-for-vp\/\">Caroline Kennedy&#8217;s name is being floated as a VP pick for Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is on the selection committee, and the author of the article, Alexander Mooney, draws a comparison to Dick Cheney, who was on the selection committee.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that she ain&#8217;t Dick Cheney.  It would be another Kennedy affirmative action hire, like Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in Maryland, or Sargent Shriver for McGovern&#8217;s running mate after Tom Eagleton bowed out.<\/p>\n<p>Please, God no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is a rumor that Caroline Kennedy&#8217;s name is being floated as a VP pick for Obama. She is on the selection committee, and the author of the article, Alexander Mooney, draws a comparison to Dick Cheney, who was on the selection committee. The problem is that she ain&#8217;t Dick Cheney. It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194767"}],"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=194767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}