{"id":1013,"date":"2008-07-13T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2008-07-13T21:01:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T20:01:55","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (48)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jul\/13\/uselections2008.johnmccain\">this article<\/a>, Barack Obama and John McCain are now thinking hard about the appointment of a Vice-Presidential running mate and there&#8217;s a lot of interest in one or both candidates choosing a woman.<br \/>\nThis is more likely to happen on the Democratic side and the article mentions three possibilities: Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas, Claire McCaskill, a senator from Missouri, and of course Hillary Clinton.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think that Obama will &#8211; or should &#8211; select Clinton. This would be too divisive a choice and it would create too much trouble for the campaign and the presidency. However, I&#8217;ve been impressed by McCaskill&#8217;s performances on CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in this article, Barack Obama and John McCain are now thinking hard about the appointment of a Vice-Presidential running mate and there&#8217;s a lot of interest in one or both candidates choosing a woman. This is more likely to happen on the Democratic side and the article mentions three possibilities: Kathleen Sebelius, Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}