{"id":500,"date":"2008-06-04T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2008-06-04T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T09:37:06","slug":"08ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"08ama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/senbarackobama.jpg\" alt=\"Obama! Obama! Obama!\" title=\"Obama! Obama! Obama!\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/> Barack Obama looks set to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/livecoverage\/2008\/06\/obama_pushes_to_lock_up_nomina.html\">clinch<\/a> the Democratic Party nod.<\/p>\n<p>Hilly hangs on, says, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSN0940302520080309\">Me too.<\/a>&#8221; I say &#8220;beggar off.&#8221; She and Bill are cut from the same &#8216;as conservative as you can get while still calling yourself a Democrat&#8217; cloth. No thanks. Although, I certainly won&#8217;t <em>not<\/em> vote for Obama if Hilly is the running mate.<\/p>\n<p>John Edwards would make an infinitely better VP. If Al Gore could be persuaded to play second banana again, seismic shifts of the magnitude of Cheney&#8217;s shenanigans, but for the benefit of the people, are in the offing.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly a year and a half of the primary races, even though resident in Australia where I&#8217;m largely insulated from American politics, I&#8217;m still a bit jack of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Just send me my absentee ballot and let&#8217;s get this show on the road.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/03\/AR2008060300888.html?hpid=topnews\">Obama Wins Historic Presidential Nomination<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama looks set to clinch the Democratic Party nod. Hilly hangs on, says, &#8220;Me too.&#8221; I say &#8220;beggar off.&#8221; She and Bill are cut from the same &#8216;as conservative as you can get while still calling yourself a Democrat&#8217; cloth. No thanks. Although, I certainly won&#8217;t not vote for Obama if Hilly is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}