{"id":3145,"date":"2008-08-23T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T14:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2008-08-23T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T14:29:15","slug":"as-i-was-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"As I Was Sitting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…staring at my cell phone, waiting for The Text from The One, I was thinking “Mitch?\u00a0 You know that the one area where “Barack”, as his friends call him, is vulnerable is among hard-core establishment liberals from the northeast.\u00a0 If only “Barack” could shore up his support among white, upper-middle-to-upper-class northeastern liberals, he’d really become a strong “buy”<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then The Phone beeped.<\/p>\n

It was a special offer from my cell phone provider.\u00a0 I erased it.<\/p>\n

And then The Phone beeped again.\u00a0 It was The Text from The One, with The Choice<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Wow<\/em>“, I thought, “that was weird.\u00a0 But what a choice!\u00a0 “Barack” could have chosen Evan Bayh, to appeal to the more-moderate midwestern vote, the Hillaristas, where he’s traditionally a tad weaker.\u00a0 Or he could have chosen Bill Richardson, and actually brought some common sense to the ticket.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“But he picked Biden – and by doing so, he not only shored up his Northeastern Urban Institutional Liberal vote, but he also added “foreign policy experience”, because Joe Biden forty-odd years in the Senate where has been utterly wrong on every foreign policy issue from the Cold War on down<\/em>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I nodded my head, satisfied.<\/p>\n

And then I pressed The Button to erase The Message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…staring at my cell phone, waiting for The Text from The One, I was thinking “Mitch?\u00a0 You know that the one area where “Barack”, as his friends call him, is vulnerable is among hard-core establishment liberals from the northeast.\u00a0 If only “Barack” could shore up his support among white, upper-middle-to-upper-class northeastern liberals, he’d really become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}