{"id":4196,"date":"2009-02-12T06:17:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2009-02-12T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T11:17:12","slug":"raising-the-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"Raising The Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/02\/11\/jindal-tapped-to-give-high-profile-gop-response-to-obama\/\">taps Bobby Jindal to give response to Obama&#8217;s address:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jindal a former congressman and first term governor, was widely believed to be on then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain&#8217;s shortlist for vice president, and often served as a campaign surrogate on the Arizona senator&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old son of Indian immigrants was also given a prime-time speaking slot at the GOP convention last September, though he ultimately decided not to attend the four-day event as Hurricane Gustav headed for landfall in his state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is good.\u00a0 The GOP&#8217;s needed to pump up its &#8220;bench&#8221; for over a decade, now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;ll get the Dems started on their counterstrategy &#8211; making &#8220;Apu&#8221; jokes politically correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP taps Bobby Jindal to give response to Obama&#8217;s address: Jindal a former congressman and first term governor, was widely believed to be on then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain&#8217;s shortlist for vice president, and often served as a campaign surrogate on the Arizona senator&#8217;s behalf. The 37-year-old son of Indian immigrants was also given a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-pc","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","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=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}