{"id":194768,"date":"2008-08-20T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/john-sidney-mccain-iii-wrong-on-everything\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T22:26:00","slug":"john-sidney-mccain-iii-wrong-on-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/john-sidney-mccain-iii-wrong-on-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sidney McCain III: Wrong on Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what surprises me more, that someone in the press said this, that it came from the Startlegram (Fort Worth Star-Telegram  my paper when I lived in Arlington, TX), or that the people who wrote this <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">are senior members of the conservative CATO institute<\/span>, which is heavily funded by the usual suspects, including Richard Mellon Scaife, but  Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent get it completely when they say that , &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/245\/story\/842375.html\">Indeed, the record indicates that McCain\u2019s own judgment is alarmingly bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They describe him as a, &#8220;Clear and present danger in the Oval Office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if conservatives are starting to tiptoe for the exits regarding the sick old man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what surprises me more, that someone in the press said this, that it came from the Startlegram (Fort Worth Star-Telegram my paper when I lived in Arlington, TX), or that the people who wrote this are senior members of the conservative CATO institute, which is heavily funded by the usual suspects, including &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194768"}],"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=194768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}