{"id":1260,"date":"2008-10-20T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2008-10-20T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:20:45","slug":"mourning-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"Mourning McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

[digg-reddit-me]If you want to know why I – like so many others – held John McCain in such high regard for so long, it had a lot to do with David Ifshin. And if you want to know why my opinion of him has plummeted, it has something to do with William Ayers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joe Klein mourns the McCain he used to know<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is the same McCain who refused to take on the issue of the Confederate flag flying over the state capitol<\/a> during the 2000 South Carolina primary – until after the primary was over. This is the same McCain who condemned torture<\/a> – until he finally was in a position to actually affect policy. This is the same McCain who promised to run a clean campaign – only to base his campaign around slander, hiring the very<\/a> people<\/a> who he had so vigorously condemned for playing dirty during the 2000 campaign. This is the same McCain who – after being embroiled in the Keating Five scandal – vowed to become a reformer – and did so, but meanwhile maintained cosy relationships with lobbyists and did many favors for donors<\/a>. And on and on.<\/p>\n

Some might even call him a “make-believe maverick<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[digg-reddit-me]If you want to know why I – like so many others – held John McCain in such high regard for so long, it had a lot to do with David Ifshin. And if you want to know why my opinion of him has plummeted, it has something to do with William Ayers. Joe Klein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,45,4,458],"tags":[880,180,879,248,123],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-david-ifshin","tag-joe-klein","tag-keating-five","tag-time","tag-william-ayers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-kk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}