{"id":3149,"date":"2008-09-12T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T14:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2008-09-12T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T14:55:49","slug":"the-old-switcheroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3149","title":{"rendered":"The old switcheroo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Something just occurred to me. This is not a comparison that holds up under under close scrutiny, perhaps, but on the face of it, the McCain\/Palin ticket is some ways a direct reversal of Bush\/Cheney.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Bush was dumb and inexperienced, without a lick of international knowledge, but a regular feller.  That&#8217;s Sarah Palin in spades; her chief assets seem to be that she&#8217;s a <s>soccer<\/s> hockey mom and knows where Russia is. (And that&#8217;s her <em>supporters<\/em> talking.) And this time around, McCain is Cheney, the old evil white guy apparently willing to do anything, sacrifice any ideal, to secure more power and the Presidency.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Again, it&#8217;s not a perfect analogy. Bush actually had considerably <em>more<\/em> experience in government in 2000 &#8212; amazingly enough &#8212; than Sarah Palin has now. And it&#8217;s questionable whether Dick Cheney ever <em>had<\/em> any ideals to sacrifice. But there&#8217;s a part of me that can&#8217;t help but wonder if someone in the McCain camp doesn&#8217;t just want to turn to the American people and say, &#8220;See, we <em>are<\/em> different. This time around, the dumb one will be <em>Vice<\/em> President!&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something just occurred to me. This is not a comparison that holds up under under close scrutiny, perhaps, but on the face of it, the McCain\/Palin ticket is some ways a direct reversal of Bush\/Cheney. Bush was dumb and inexperienced, without a lick of international knowledge, but a regular feller. That&#8217;s Sarah Palin in spades; &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3149\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}