{"id":2754,"date":"2008-06-18T22:28:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2008-06-18T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:28:47","slug":"im-with-shlok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2754","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m with Shlok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shloky.com\/?p=1009#comment-36822\"><strong>Shloky&#8217;s<\/strong> right<\/a>.<strong> Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/working_group.php\">national security working group<\/a>&#8221; is designed to be\u00a0safe, graybeardish and\u00a0reassuringly vetted to avoid some embarrassing time bomb going off in the media down the road. <strong>Madeleine Albright<\/strong> is the edgiest figure in the group! You can almost hear Senator Obama saying, much like a used-car salesman, &#8221; this foreign policy team was owned by a liberal\u00a0Southern governor of a small rural state who only drove it on Sundays&#8230;&#8221;. How many of the somewhat conservative Democrats on this list will actually be offered a job come January if Obama wins?\u00a0 Nunn and Hamilton were too conservative for the Clinton administration and Barack Obama is quite a bit left of old Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Starbuck&#8217;s sipping\u00a0radicals in <strong>Yglesias&#8217; <\/strong>comment section appear to be unhappy\u00a0but for different reasons; evidently they expected the Obama campaign to have named\u00a0<strong>Leon Trotskii<\/strong> and <strong>Che Guevara<\/strong> as advisers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shloky&#8217;s right. Obama&#8217;s &#8220;national security working group&#8221; is designed to be\u00a0safe, graybeardish and\u00a0reassuringly vetted to avoid some embarrassing time bomb going off in the media down the road. Madeleine Albright is the edgiest figure in the group! You can almost hear Senator Obama saying, much like a used-car salesman, &#8221; this foreign policy team was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,531,304,415,87,270,187,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-188","category-barack-obama","category-defense","category-elections","category-foreign-policy","category-national-security","category-politics","category-shloky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}