{"id":194836,"date":"2008-08-15T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/15\/it-aint-the-mccain-clown-show-yet-but-its-getting-there\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T22:19:00","slug":"it-aint-the-mccain-clown-show-yet-but-its-getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/15\/it-aint-the-mccain-clown-show-yet-but-its-getting-there\/","title":{"rendered":"It Ain&#8217;t the McCain Clown Show Yet, But It&#8217;s Getting There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0808\/12542.html\">freaked out conservatives<\/a> by saying that Tom Ridge&#8217;s support for abortion rights would not rule him out as a VP pick.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Lieberman might be on the short list too, as he is (barely) pro-choice, and I think that most of the freaking out is about the possibility of Joementum on the ticket.  It&#8217;s not abortion, it&#8217;s pulling the lever for a Yid that gets to them.<\/p>\n<p>In unrelated, except that it&#8217;s bad, news, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121876461747243159.html\">Andrew McCain, John&#8217;s son sat on the audit committee of Silver State Bancorp<\/a> until January of this year, bailing just before they posted enormous losses:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As of June 30, the bank said 14% of its $1.96 billion in total assets were nonperforming, up from 0.75% six months earlier. A year ago, its shares were trading for more than $18 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. They closed Thursday at 83 cents in Nasdaq 4 p.m. trading. The loss restatement was released after the market close.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And little Andy was on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">the audit committee<\/span>, and bailed out before they started to tank.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to see here, move along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain just freaked out conservatives by saying that Tom Ridge&#8217;s support for abortion rights would not rule him out as a VP pick. This means that Lieberman might be on the short list too, as he is (barely) pro-choice, and I think that most of the freaking out is about the possibility of Joementum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,977,1122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-presidential-campaign","category-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194836"}],"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=194836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}