{"id":222,"date":"2008-08-23T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2008-08-23T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T21:35:40","slug":"obamabiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/08\/23\/obamabiden\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\/Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ticket is Obama\/Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"CSPAN's Coverage\" href=\"rtsp:\/\/video1.c-span.org\/archive\/c08\/c08_082308_obama.rm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to see CSPAN&#8217;s coverage of the speeches in Springfield, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"CNN's Coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/08\/23\/biden.democrat.vp.candidate\/index.html#cnnSTCVideo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to see CNN&#8217;s coverage. The video may be better than CSPAN&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I know I said I was angry at Obama over his FISA vote and would look for another candidate at the convention.\u00a0 After seeing Obama and Biden today, I am back onboard the Obama\/Biden train.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear from Biden&#8217;s speech today what a great addition he is to the ticket.\u00a0 Besides all the substantive contributions he can make to the administration, he will make a great running mate. Obama needed a running mate that could say the things that Biden said.\u00a0 Biden can tell us why he thinks Obama is the one to elect in a way that Obama could not.\u00a0 It looks much better to have someone else tout your virtues than doing it yourself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Obama\/Biden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/images\/bo_headers\/header_obama_05.jpg\" alt=\"Obama\/Biden\" width=\"320\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#39;s The Ticket<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ticket is Obama\/Biden. Follow this link to see CSPAN&#8217;s coverage of the speeches in Springfield, Illinois. Follow this link to see CNN&#8217;s coverage. The video may be better than CSPAN&#8217;s. I know I said I was angry at Obama over his FISA vote and would look for another candidate at the convention.\u00a0 After seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-politics","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}