{"id":578,"date":"2008-04-04T04:41:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T12:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=578"},"modified":"2008-04-04T04:42:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T12:42:53","slug":"mccain-vulnerablized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/mccain-vulnerablized\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Vulnerablized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20080404\/D8VQQNR00.html\">Who would be grateful to know this?<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Sen. John McCain travels the campaign trail without Secret Service protection although he is the Republican Party&#8217;s likely presidential nominee, the agency&#8217;s director told Congress on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the Arizona senator has not requested his agency&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Statutorily, he is not required to take protection,&#8221; Sullivan said when asked about McCain&#8217;s security during a hearing on the agency&#8217;s budget. &#8220;As far as an actual request, we have not gotten one. We have no involvement at this point.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>And why would a congressman ask the question in a reportable setting?<\/p>\n<p>And why would a Secret Service guy answer it?<\/p>\n<p>And why would a news organization publish it?<\/p>\n<p>And why would I publish it further?<\/p>\n<p>Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>In my estimation, John McCain has been made more vulnerable to attack.<\/p>\n<p>Not so long ago, there was a story about <a href=\"\/mvp\/?p=547\">Obama being left unprotected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm!! <b>Conspiracy alert!<\/b> \ud83d\ude2f \ud83d\ude44 If you hear a talk show host or read a blogger postulate the notion that The Clinton Machine is at work in both of these instances, please let me know.<\/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>Who would be grateful to know this? Sen. John McCain travels the campaign trail without Secret Service protection although he is the Republican Party&#8217;s likely presidential nominee, the agency&#8217;s director told Congress on Thursday. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the Arizona senator has not requested his agency&#8217;s services. &#8220;Statutorily, &#8230; <a title=\"McCain Vulnerablized\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/mccain-vulnerablized\/\" aria-label=\"More on McCain Vulnerablized\">Read more<\/a><!-- 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-9k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}