{"id":1459,"date":"2008-09-12T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2008-09-12T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:16:06","slug":"sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help liking Sarah Palin at the same time I&#8217;m appalled at the prospect of her being one-heart-beat-away from the Presidency. <\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/rossdouthat.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/will_mccain_ruin_palin_revisit.php\">charitable post <\/a>from someone who is rooting for her. He says in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If Palin&#8217;s smart &#8211; if she&#8217;s the politician I hope she is, rather than an Alaskan Goodling with snazzy glasses &#8211; she&#8217;ll push back against this tendency, and try to use the next two months as an opportunity to define herself substantively as something more than a careful memorizer of the briefing books she&#8217;s handed.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I for one am not that confident that she is as good as Ross Douthat hopes and the more I see of the McCain ads the less <em><strong>straight<\/strong><\/em> I hear in his <em><strong>talk<\/strong><\/em>. If Palin remains simply a &#8220;me too&#8221; then she&#8217;s worse than Dan Quayle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help liking Sarah Palin at the same time I&#8217;m appalled at the prospect of her being one-heart-beat-away from the Presidency. This is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}