Standing in line at the bank this afternoon, I overheard these observations as one of my fellow customers talked on her cell phone to somebody:<\/p>\n
I’m ecstatic that they picked . . . what? . . her name is Sarah. Yeah, McCain will lose for sure now! We should go out and celebrate. Nobody will want her to be president if he croaks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This may be premature; still, I can’t forbear to think that McCain’s choice is cynical. It’s not only an insult to strong women like Kay Bailey Huctchinson, it’s an insult to strong men as well. I think this choice illustrates amply what Barack must have meant when he said in last night’s speech that he welcomed a debate about whose judgment and temperament<\/i> qualified him to be commander in chief.<\/p>\n
I don’t think McCain wants a running mate who can talk back to him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Standing in line at the bank this afternoon, I overheard these observations as one of my fellow customers talked on her cell phone to somebody: I’m ecstatic that they picked . . . what? . . her name is Sarah. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}