{"id":1638,"date":"2008-06-04T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2008-06-04T18:02:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:02:44","slug":"obamas-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/obamas-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s VP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121262109484746703.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news\">no way<\/a> that Obama will pick Clinton as VP.<\/p>\n<p>After reading <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/05\/09\/obama-vice-president-pick_n_100869.html\">The Huffington Post<\/a><\/i>&#8216;s analysis about VP picks, it would seem that there are three likely contenders:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Richardson\">Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Webb\">Sen. Jim Webb<\/a> [Here&#8217;s a Slate <a href=\"http:\/\/fray.slate.com\/discuss\/forums\/thread\/1257845.aspx\">commenter<\/a> and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2191477\/\">bloggers<\/a> on why Webb should get it.]<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathleen_Sibelius\">Gov. Kathleen Sibelius<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harping on my <a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1636\">international theme<\/a>, Richardson seems the best choice here. He&#8217;s got the foreign policy creds, and hell, HE SPEAKS SPANISH.<\/p>\n<p>And as David Boyk pointed out, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Villaraigosa\">Antonio Villaraigosa<\/a> (a big Clinton supporter) could also be an interesting choice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way that Obama will pick Clinton as VP. After reading The Huffington Post&#8216;s analysis about VP picks, it would seem that there are three likely contenders: &#8211; Gov. Bill Richardson &#8211; Sen. Jim Webb [Here&#8217;s a Slate commenter and other bloggers on why Webb should get it.] &#8211; Gov. Kathleen Sibelius Harping on my international theme, Richardson seems the best choice here. He&#8217;s got the foreign policy creds, and hell, HE SPEAKS SPANISH. And as David Boyk pointed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-barack-obama","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-qq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}