{"id":829,"date":"2008-09-16T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/the-ugly-new-mccain.html"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:13:00","slug":"ugly-new-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/ugly-new-mccain.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly New McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Cohen has historically been a huge fan of John McCain.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/15\/AR2008091502406.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">But not anymore<\/a>.<br \/>Key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>McCain was going to fix all that. He was going to look the American people in the eyes and say, not me. I will not lie to you. I am John McCain, son and grandson of admirals. I tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>But Joy Behar knew better. And so McCain lied about his lying and maybe thinks that if he wins the election, he can &#8212; as he did in South Carolina &#8212; renounce who he was and what he did and resume his old persona. It won&#8217;t work. Karl Marx got one thing right &#8212; what he said about history repeating itself. Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Cohen has historically been a huge fan of John McCain. But not anymore.Key quote: McCain was going to fix<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/ugly-new-mccain.html\" title=\"Read The Ugly New McCain\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}