{"id":317,"date":"2008-08-17T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-08-17T19:23:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:23:54","slug":"oh_no_he_didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Oh No He DIDN&#8217;T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMaybe I&#8217;m late to the game here, but seriously, I saw purple spots in front of my eyes when I saw this line attributed to John McCain:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow, this could be a misquote.  This could be something invented out of whole cloth by some Mumia-worshipper from International ANSWER, or maybe one of those sad-sack Nader 2008 hipsters.  It&#8217;s possible he never said anything like this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf John McCain actually said this &#8211; actually said that this ridiculous brushfire dustup is the first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War &#8211; then he shouldn&#8217;t be running for President, he should be in a fucking home.  As memory serves me right, we have had Iraq invading Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia, we&#8217;ve had the collapse of the Balkans and an attempt at genocide, and let&#8217;s see, what else?  Oh yeah, THREE THOUSAND DEAD ON AMERICAN SOIL.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEither he&#8217;s gone utterly galactically stupid, or just doesn&#8217;t give a shit.  Either should be instantly disqualifying, but let&#8217;s not forget, the most important thing in choosing a President is who you&#8217;d rather have a beer with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#8217;m late to the game here, but seriously, I saw purple spots in front of my eyes when I saw this line attributed to John McCain: &#8220;My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.&#8221; Now, this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh No He DIDN&#8217;T&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}