{"id":853,"date":"2004-04-12T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/vice_president_petition\/"},"modified":"2004-04-12T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T19:33:21","slug":"vice_president_petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/vice_president_petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in a volunteer organization from Senator Edward&#8217;s presidential campaign has e-mailed out links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/edwards\/\">this petition<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.draftkerryedwards.com\/\">this website<\/a> in an effort to generate public support to put Senator Edwards on the Democratic ticket.  As a supporter of Edwards during the primaries, I have mixed feelings on this, and I&#8217;m not even certain he wants to run of vice president.  But there&#8217;s no question he would be an asset on the ticket.<br \/>\nSpeaking of the presidential race, the main argument touted in favor of the condensed primary season by the Democratic party command center was that it would be good for the party to rally around the nominee early.  The early selection has provided a focal point for fund raising, and that&#8217;s probably the only thing the DNC cares about.  But Senator Kerry has hardly used this early period to generate campaign momentum.  While the Bush administration has been imploding, Kerry has (1) been off on a sky vacation, and (2) had surgery.  Time to get things in gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/vice_president_petition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Vice President Petition\"><p>Someone in a volunteer organization from Senator Edward&#8217;s presidential campaign has e-mailed out links to this petition and this website in an effort to generate public support to put Senator Edwards on the Democratic ticket. As a supporter of Edwards during the primaries, I have mixed feelings on this, and I&#8217;m not even certain he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}