{"id":540,"date":"2008-08-29T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=540"},"modified":"2008-08-29T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T15:06:22","slug":"mccain-delivers-a-strong-left-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"McCain delivers a strong, left hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain, after <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/28\/mccains-mystery-ad-to-obama-revealed-congratulations\/\" target=\"_blank\">congratulating Barack Obama<\/a> for his historic nomination, appears to have chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his pick for VP. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/08\/29\/palin.republican.vp.candidate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/photoessay\/0,4644,4975,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">FoxNews<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Palin, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsweek.com\/blogs\/stumper\/archive\/2008\/08\/29\/has-mccain-tapped-the-barracuda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Barracuda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANGE&#8230; we can believe in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/rustylopez.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c520f53ef00e554c959b18834-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c520f53ef00e554c959b18834\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rustylopez.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c520f53ef00e554c959b18834-120wi\" alt=\"Amd_palin-smiles\" \/><\/a>In an essentially 50\/50 race, this is an awesome, gutsy, risky, and potentially brilliant move. Can we say&#8230; <strong>Maverick<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Kind of makes you wonder what Hillary is thinking now, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>(image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2008\/08\/29\/2008-08-29_speculation_over_johns_mccain_vp_choice_.html\" target=\"_blank\">McNamee\/Getty<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain, after congratulating Barack Obama for his historic nomination, appears to have chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his pick for VP. (see CNN, FoxNews) Palin, the Barracuda. CHANGE&#8230; we can believe in. In an essentially 50\/50 race, this is an awesome, gutsy, risky, and potentially brilliant move. Can we say&#8230; Maverick? Kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,26,28,59],"tags":[74,75,76,73,77,72,78],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rusty","tag-alaska","tag-alaska-governor","tag-mccain","tag-palin","tag-republican","tag-sarah-palin","tag-vice-president"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}