{"id":3505,"date":"2008-10-21T05:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2008-10-20T17:24:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T22:24:29","slug":"as-a-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3505","title":{"rendered":"As A General&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Colin Powell earned the respect of every American.<\/p>\n<p>As a Secretary of State, Colin Powell made an excellent general.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much I can say about Powell&#8217;s endorsement of Obama that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/jonathanmartin\/1008\/Limbaugh_Where_are_the_inexperienced_white_liberals_Powell_has_endorsed.html?showall\">others<\/a> aren&#8217;t saying <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/19\/colin-powell-drops-the-other-shoe\/\">better<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But watching him on <em>Today<\/em> this morning, one bit stuck out:\u00a0 Obama, he of the paper-thin resume, with a third of a term in the Senate and a brief career as a Chicago ward heeleer in the Illinois legislature\u00a0and a barely-filled suit, is a &#8220;transormational figure&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;while Sarah Palin is &#8220;inexperienced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Reding <a href=\"http:\/\/jayreding.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/20\/powells-flimsy-case-for-obama\/\">has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Colin Powell earned the respect of every American. As a Secretary of State, Colin Powell made an excellent general. There&#8217;s not much I can say about Powell&#8217;s endorsement of Obama that others aren&#8217;t saying better. But watching him on Today this morning, one bit stuck out:\u00a0 Obama, he of the paper-thin resume, with a third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}