{"id":82,"date":"2006-04-10T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/cf\/?p=82"},"modified":"2006-04-10T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T17:32:00","slug":"mccain-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/mccain-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/showthread.php?t=366378\">Decent McCain discussion<\/a> on the Straight Dope<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at my previous post, I took a moment to sit and wonder if I was too harsh on Senator McCain. After all, this is politics we&#8217;re talking about. Sometimes you have to change your spots to get votes. (Scary though that Republicans calculate that to get elected, they have to snuggle up to the lunatic fringe&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I happened to download (from iTunes) a recent episode of The Daily Show (I think it was from April 6th) where he was interviewed by Jon Stewart. Now McCain has been on the show a lot, he&#8217;s a favorite guest there. Jon acted very disappointed in the senator&#8217;s recent actions &#8211; especially his preparing to give a speech at Falwell&#8217;s university. McCain, for his part, looked somewhat unconfortable responding to those questions, as if they weren&#8217;t the answers he really wanted to give. Not that what he gave were &#8220;answers&#8221; <i>per se<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, it turns out he&#8217;s been rather <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceg8.com\/john-mccain-on-evolution-murky-at-best\/\">vague<\/a> with regards to creationism in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Would he really change his spots back after getting elected? Would he become the &#8216;straight talker&#8217; he once claimed to be? I dunno. Does he want a second term?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. If he ever had my vote, it&#8217;s lost now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decent McCain discussion on the Straight Dope Looking back at my previous post, I took a moment to sit and wonder if I was too harsh on Senator McCain. After all, this is politics we&#8217;re talking about. Sometimes you have to change your spots to get votes. (Scary though that Republicans calculate that to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}