{"id":693,"date":"2007-08-10T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2007-08-10T05:06:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T09:06:54","slug":"friday-open-thread-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2007\/08\/10\/friday-open-thread-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, so, just hypothetically speaking, suppose it’s Hillary. Who’s the VP gonna be? Not so much who you want<\/strong> it to be (or we wouldn’t be supposing Hillary in the first place), but who you think<\/em><\/strong> it will be – or at least who you think it ought<\/em><\/strong> to be. I think Hillary\/Edwards would be a pretty powerful ticket. I have doubts that he’d go for the VP slot. From Hillary’s perspective, I think Joe Biden would be a good choice. He’s got a pretty good resume, a good amount of experience, and could temper any fears of Hillary being too “girly.” Though, if you think Hillary’s too girly, you haven’t been paying attention. It’s my biggest fear that Hillary will invade somebody to avoid looking “soft” on whatever it is that we frown about looking soft on. Terrorism, I s’pose it is, these days. It’s been plenty of other things, over the years. It mostly boils down to “us” vs. “them.” For the rationale, anyway. The real<\/em><\/strong> reason for invading countries is far more simple. It’s all about the money. <\/p>\n

In the case of Iraq, the plain and simple truth is that this country runs (or slithers, perhaps) on oil. A presidential candidate can’t pretend that the Middle East isn’t strategically important. Sorry, it is. Until we have a president that actually wants to get us off the foreign oil (like now, please). <\/p>\n

We went to Iraq to establish the largest military base in the world in the middle of a country that sits on the world’s #3 oil resources. And to control access to the Persian Gulf (which is what the first Iraq War was really all about). Our country runs on oil, and it makes a very few people a shitload of money. We need to cut these leeches off. We’ve already spent almost half a trillion on this Iraq occupation to control the oil so that we can pay three bucks a gallon for gas, while Exxon makes record profits. We’re paying from both ends. <\/p>\n

Anyhow, it’s Friday. Go out and fry something – perhaps even your mind….<\/p>\n

OK, so, just hypothetically speaking, suppose it’s Hillary. Who’s the VP gonna be? Not so much who you want it to be (or we wouldn’t be supposing Hillary in the first place), but who you think it will be – or at least who you think it ought to be. I think Hillary\/Edwards would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}