{"id":297,"date":"2008-02-27T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-02-27T09:34:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:34:36","slug":"if-you-injected-obama-with-sodium-penathol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"If you injected Obama with sodium penathol&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2008\/02\/25\/VI2008022500010.html\">Edward G. Rendell, interviewed by the <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> at the governors&#8217; meeting, struck me as a &#8220;good ol&#8217; boy&#8221; who would hurt as much as he would help a national ticket.  Mr. Rendell suggests Senator Joe Biden as Vice President if Mr. Obama wins, and slyly and subtly, himself if Ms. Clinton wins the nomination.  I&#8217;m not all that sure about either suggestion.  In the next moment, Mr. Rendell suggests injecting Mr. Obama with sodium penathol!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To give a bit more context &#8211;  he says that if Mr. Obama were injected with sodium penathol &#8211; a.k.a truth serum &#8211;  he would admit that the media was treating him favorably.  Perhaps that&#8217;s less extreme than the headline.  You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, based on these interviews &#8211; and a few other factors &#8211; I see Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota as Senator John McCain&#8217;s Vice Presidential pick.  (The alternate I see is South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.)  Despite the many reasons for Mr. McCain to pick Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, I don&#8217;t see that happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward G. Rendell, interviewed by the Washington Post at the governors&#8217; meeting, struck me as a &#8220;good ol&#8217; boy&#8221; who would hurt as much as he would help a national ticket. Mr. Rendell suggests Senator Joe Biden as Vice President if Mr. Obama wins, and slyly and subtly, himself if Ms. Clinton wins the nomination. [&hellip;]<\/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":[22,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-politics","category-the-clintons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-4N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}