{"id":253,"date":"2008-10-06T00:50:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T04:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/06\/finally-a-john-mccain-statement-i-can-agree-with\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T02:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T06:15:49","slug":"finally-a-john-mccain-statement-i-can-agree-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/06\/finally-a-john-mccain-statement-i-can-agree-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, A John McCain Statement I Can Agree With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first, I was amused by John McCain&#8217;s bitter-sounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/politicalintelligence\/2008\/10\/mccain_life_isn.html\">&#8220;life isn\u2019t fair\u201d remark.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked why Obama has been rising as the Wall Street crisis has dominated attention, McCain said with a chuckle on Fox News Channel: &#8220;Because life isn\u2019t fair.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But on second thought, I&#8217;ve decided McCain is\u00a0right:<\/p>\n<p>Finally, A McCain Statement I\u00a0 Can Agree With<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>McCain&#8217;s very wrong about war<br \/>\nAnd on health care and taxes and more.<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s right (though it&#8217;s rare)<br \/>\nWith his &#8220;life isn&#8217;t fair,&#8221;<br \/>\nCuz what else could explain Bush v. Gore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first, I was amused by John McCain&#8217;s bitter-sounding &#8220;life isn\u2019t fair\u201d remark. Asked why Obama has been rising as the Wall Street crisis has dominated attention, McCain said with a chuckle on Fox News Channel: &#8220;Because life isn\u2019t fair.\u201d But on second thought, I&#8217;ve decided McCain is\u00a0right: Finally, A McCain Statement I\u00a0 Can Agree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,21,8,20,40,2,6,7,3,9,13],"tags":[372,192,194,375,373,370,240,371,360,376,374],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-john-mccain","category-law","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-supreme-court","tag-bush-v-gore","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-health-care","tag-legal-humor","tag-life-isnt-fair","tag-presidential-election","tag-senator-mccain-humor","tag-senator-obama","tag-taxes","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}