{"id":336,"date":"2008-09-16T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=336"},"modified":"2008-09-16T06:58:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:58:47","slug":"sarah-palin-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/09\/sarah-palin-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans clearly achieved their goal: grabbing attention.  Obama was enjoying all the media coverage and McCain was fading from people&#8217;s memory.  Now media just cannot get enough of her, a very distinct person.  She is not ambiguous on anything.  Maybe that&#8217;s something we should worry about? Politicians are supposed to be subtle and inscrutable.  Aren&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>Her <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Vote2008\/story?id=5787748&#038;page=1\">Nightline<\/a> interview was boring.  The only fun part is when she does not really know what was the &#8220;Bush Doctrine.&#8221;  Charlie Gibson almost explained to her.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2008\/01\/07\/emotional-moment-for-clinton-in-nh\/\">Hilary won New Hampshire<\/a> by showing a bit of herself?  Somehow, Sarah Palin is losing her personality and becoming a political drone.  This will lose the effect McCain designed her for.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I don&#8217;t see a person with strong and distinct stances on many issues succeed in Washington, D.C.  Maybe Sarah Palin will be a great help during the campaign, but a liability as a VP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans clearly achieved their goal: grabbing attention. Obama was enjoying all the media coverage and McCain was fading from people&#8217;s memory. Now media just cannot get enough of her, a very distinct person. She is not ambiguous on anything. Maybe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/09\/sarah-palin-effect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}