{"id":965,"date":"2008-09-08T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=965"},"modified":"2008-09-08T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:11:17","slug":"will-osama-endorse-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Will Bin Laden Endorse McCain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Do you remember when the Bin Laden tape in 2004 was spun by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,137366,00.html\">Fox News<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/008366.php\">right-wing<\/a> as a Bin Laden endorsement of John Kerry?<\/p>\n<p>If &#8211; as Charlie Black, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Charles_R._Black%2C_Jr.\">top Washington lobbyist unti McCain<\/a> put him on his payroll, admitted &#8211; it is the conventional wisdom that a terrorist attack before the election would &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/25\/us\/politics\/24cnd-memo.html?pagewanted=print\">be a big advantage<\/a>&#8221; for McCain in the election and help get him elected&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And as McCain&#8217;s policies of military over-extension, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2187570\/pagenum\/all\/#page_start\">fiscal irresponsibility<\/a>, and continued occupation and war in the Middle East fit nicely into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/0,1518,369448,00.html\">Al Qaeda&#8217;s master plan<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t that logically make any terrorist attack on American soil, or any surprise videos putting Bin Laden front-and-center, an effective endorsement of McCain?<\/p>\n<p>Just asking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Do you remember when the Bin Laden tape in 2004 was spun by Fox News and the right-wing as a Bin Laden endorsement of John Kerry? If &#8211; as Charlie Black, a top Washington lobbyist unti McCain put him on his payroll, admitted &#8211; it is the conventional wisdom that a terrorist attack before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,3,45,367,6,4,9],"tags":[162,726,724,105,725,343],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-foreign-policy","category-mccain","category-national-security","category-obama","category-politics","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-qaeda-master-plan","tag-charlie-black","tag-der-spiegel","tag-fiscal-irresponsibility","tag-osama-bin-laden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-fz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}