{"id":2496,"date":"2012-08-13T14:50:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2012-08-13T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:50:20","slug":"he-picked-a-rich-white-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/he-picked-a-rich-white-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"He Picked a Rich, White Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know &#8212; that sounds like a racist statement made worse with the class-warfare element.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s the truth, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>And can you blame him for making that kind of selection for running mate?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, hasn&#8217;t that route worked for every single President of the United States? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I don&#8217;t know the answer to that question. And I&#8217;m too uninterested to research the matter. I just know that in my lifetime, every last Vice President has been a rich, white guy.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I can think of only two major-party Presidential candidates who did not have a rich, white guy running for Vice President alongside him &#8212; Walter Mondale and John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, picking a VP running mate that&#8217;s male, rich, and white has a history of working at least once every fours years.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder he picked a rich, white guy.<\/p>\n<p>Can you blame Mr. Obama?<\/p>\n<p>Or Mr. Romney?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: This is Mark, enjoying a little light comic relief. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> Bye.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know &#8212; that sounds like a racist statement made worse with the class-warfare element. But it&#8217;s the truth, isn&#8217;t it? And can you blame him for making that kind of selection for running mate? I mean, hasn&#8217;t that route worked for every single President of the United States?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,534],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-todays-thought","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}