{"id":402,"date":"2012-08-17T00:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=402"},"modified":"2012-08-17T00:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:20:39","slug":"brilliant-political-move-from-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Political Move From Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A true rarity.\u00a0 The Republicans just manipulated BHO into keeping the gaffe generating Joe Biden on the ticket.\u00a0 Lately Biden has been producing several gaffes a day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gotten so bad that people are checking the news every few hours to find out what stupid statement he&#8217;s made.\u00a0 The prominent participants were <a href=\"http:\/\/foxnewsinsider.com\/2012\/08\/16\/sarah-palin-if-hillary-clinton-replaced-joe-biden-as-obamas-vp-theyd-have-a-darn-good-chance-of-winning\/\">Sarah Palin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlsam.com\/Article.asp?id=2514570&amp;spid=\">John McCain<\/a>, who independently said our young president should dump Joe and replace him with Hillary. But the crowning, but less prominent, statement came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/79735.html\">Rudolph Giuliani<\/a>, who simply said that Biden isn&#8217;t very bright.<\/p>\n<p>So today we have Jay Carney saying they&#8217;re keeping Joe and this all is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2012\/08\/16\/carney_bidens_chain_comment_distraction_from_real_issues_obamas_dog_comment_was_a_joke.html\">distraction<\/a> from &#8220;policy issues.&#8221;\u00a0 A &#8220;distraction&#8221; is Democrat party-speak for telling the media they&#8217;re supposed to let the Democrat party control the narrative, not engage in discussions not in a press release.\u00a0 Carney also got in a dig at McCain giving advice on running mates, which is fine.\u00a0 Carney might not even know his boss&#8217; ego was just expertly played and he&#8217;s now left with two choices.\u00a0 He can take Biden off the campaign trail (probably the smartest move), or just wait hourly to be notified of the latest Bidenism.\u00a0 The latter is more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A true rarity.\u00a0 The Republicans just manipulated BHO into keeping the gaffe generating Joe Biden on the ticket.\u00a0 Lately Biden has been producing several gaffes a day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gotten so bad that people are checking the news every few hours &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrat-party","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}