{"id":195136,"date":"2008-07-28T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/28\/what-the-f-is-wrong-with-the-obama-veep-team\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T22:16:00","slug":"what-the-f-is-wrong-with-the-obama-veep-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/28\/what-the-f-is-wrong-with-the-obama-veep-team\/","title":{"rendered":"What the F&#038;^% is Wrong With the Obama Veep Team?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Veneman???  They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0708\/12059.html\">floating the name of Ann Veneman as a name under consideration<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a Republican, she prevented farmers from testing their cows for Mad Cow disease, and she is a former member of the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>These folks want a former Bushie as Vice President?<\/p>\n<p>Obama needs to get whoever is leaking this to STFU, and to get whoever suggested this to STFU too.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, it turns out that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Nation<\/span> is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/thenation\/20080727\/cm_thenation\/45339563\">all over this<\/a>, and goes into some more detail, calling Veneman &#8220;uniquely awful&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her political strength is in California, which is redundant.<\/li>\n<li>The rural and farmer communities distrust her, and in fact <strong>booed<\/strong> her when she visited &#8220;fly over&#8221; country.<\/li>\n<li>Her background is as a vociferously absolutist supporter of free trade deals.<\/li>\n<li>Her tenure as Ag Secretary was, &#8220;strictly pro-agribusiness, pro-pesticide company, pro-pharmaceutical.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Is a big supporter of Frankenfoods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, I think that some of Obama&#8217;s staff miss the bigger point: While his current supporters will <strong>ALL<\/strong> vote for him, this is the sort of choice that would <strong>demoralize<\/strong> them.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the original source is <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Politico<\/span>, and so is a bit suspect though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Veneman??? They are floating the name of Ann Veneman as a name under consideration? She&#8217;s a Republican, she prevented farmers from testing their cows for Mad Cow disease, and she is a former member of the Bush administration. These folks want a former Bushie as Vice President? Obama needs to get whoever is leaking &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-195136","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\/195136"}],"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=195136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}