{"id":10,"date":"2008-10-02T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T02:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/sarah-politician\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T02:42:04","slug":"sarah-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/sarah-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Politician?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, Sarah Palin really surprised me in the debate tonight.\u00a0 She was much more articulate and composed compared to recent interviews.\u00a0 She seems to really have nailed down the art of deflecting questi<br \/>\nns she did not want to answer.\u00a0 Joe Biden, on the other hand, seemed to answer all the questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>I made a list of the questions, I thought that she had avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Deregulation of health care.<br \/>\nCauses of climate change.<br \/>\nWhich is worse?\u00a0 Nuclear Iran or unstable Pakistan?<br \/>\nExpanded office of the VP powers<br \/>\nWhat is Sarah\u2019s Achilles\u2019\u00a0 heel?\u00a0 I guess she doesn\u2019t have one.<br \/>\nExpanded powers of the office of the VP (as set by this administration).<\/p>\n<p>I still felt that she was acting a little like Ms. South Carolina.\u00a0 She had talking points she wanted to make and she was going to make them regardless of what she asked.\u00a0 In some ways, it reminded me of the Bush vs Gore debates of 8 year ago, only Biden was able to keep his sighs to himself, if he had any.<\/p>\n<p>I felt a little touched by the point where Joe Biden choked up when talking about his family.\u00a0 He seemed very genuine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, Sarah Palin really surprised me in the debate tonight.\u00a0 She was much more articulate and composed compared to recent interviews.\u00a0 She seems to really have nailed down the art of deflecting questi ns she did not want to answer.\u00a0 Joe Biden, on the other hand, seemed to answer all the questions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/sarah-politician\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sarah Politician?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-presidential-election","tag-add-new-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}