{"id":324,"date":"2008-10-08T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/?p=324"},"modified":"2008-10-05T23:33:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T06:33:50","slug":"time-to-unload-gaffe-prone-vp-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/08\/time-to-unload-gaffe-prone-vp-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to unload gaffe-prone VP candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=ZmU3YzIyZDU1ZTM2OTc1MTI0Mzc3Njc3ODFmYzZjNWY=\">Sarah Biden by Victor Davis Hanson.  More at the link.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Journalists continue to ask, &#8220;What was John McCain thinking in selecting the gaffe-prone Gov. Sarah Palin?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In what has now become a disturbing pattern, the Alaska governor seems either unable or unwilling to avoid embarrassing statements that are often as untrue as they are outrageous. Recently, for example, in an exclusive interview with news anchor Katie Couric, Palin gushed, &#8220;When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn&#8217;t just talk about the, you know, princes of greed. He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLook, here&#8217;s what happened.&#8217; &#8221; Apparently the former Alaskan beauty queen failed to realize that in 1929 there was neither widespread television nor was Franklin Roosevelt even President.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy moley&#8230;  EVERYBODY knows FDR wasn&#8217;t president yet in 1929, and there was no broadcast TV yet.  That Sarah&#8230;.  she&#8217;s just a country bumpkin, definitely not ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-324\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/08\/time-to-unload-gaffe-prone-vp-candidate\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-324\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/08\/time-to-unload-gaffe-prone-vp-candidate\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-324\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/08\/time-to-unload-gaffe-prone-vp-candidate\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/08\/time-to-unload-gaffe-prone-vp-candidate\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/08\/time-to-unload-gaffe-prone-vp-candidate\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Biden by Victor Davis Hanson. More at the link. Journalists continue to ask, &#8220;What was John McCain thinking in selecting the gaffe-prone Gov. Sarah Palin?&#8221; In what has now become a disturbing pattern, the Alaska governor seems either unable or unwilling to avoid embarrassing statements that are often as untrue as they are outrageous. 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