{"id":195757,"date":"2008-06-16T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/16\/nunn-of-the-above\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T22:48:00","slug":"nunn-of-the-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/16\/nunn-of-the-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Nunn of the Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=6287\">Open left<\/a> has the following VP short list of Obama, and I thought that I would put my 2 cents in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evan Bayh (Sen-IN)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>DLC Squish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Joe Biden (Sen-DE)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Only if McCain chooses Joe Biden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Wes Clark (Gen-AR)<\/li>\n<li>Hillary Clinton (Sen-NY)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Daschle (Sen-SD)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Sorry, but he screams out milquetoast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Chris Dodd (Sen-CT)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent revalations about his house loans rule him out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>James Jones (Gen-MO)<\/li>\n<li>Tim Kaine (Gov-VA)<\/li>\n<li>John Kerry (Sen-MA)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>No.  He&#8217;s already lost once.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Patty Murray (Sen-WA)<\/li>\n<li>Bill Nelson (Sen-FL)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Sam Nunn<\/span> (Sen-GA)<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span>If he gets the nod, we will all know that a bunch of progressives in the party got completely taken in by him.  In addition to being homophobic, he&#8217;s sat on so many corporate boards lately that he looks like a McCain lobbyist.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Jack Reed (Sen-RI)<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Sebelius (Gov-KS)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Warner (Gov-VA)<\/li>\n<li>Jim Webb (Sen-VA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see, but if it&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; Nunn, it&#8217;s not a good move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open left has the following VP short list of Obama, and I thought that I would put my 2 cents in: Evan Bayh (Sen-IN) DLC Squish. Joe Biden (Sen-DE) Only if McCain chooses Joe Biden. Wes Clark (Gen-AR) Hillary Clinton (Sen-NY) Tom Daschle (Sen-SD) Sorry, but he screams out milquetoast. Chris Dodd (Sen-CT) Recent revalations &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195757"}],"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=195757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}