{"id":4626,"date":"2008-08-30T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2008-08-30T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T15:30:48","slug":"the-story-behind-palins-selection-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4626","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Palin\u2019s Selection for VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/080829_palin_fist_martin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <i>Having search the internet, it is not clear to me that Sarah Palin has received a full vetting. McCain is making a big gamble. In two months we will know whether the move was brilliant or stupid. Here is the best background article on the nomination.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>The story behind the Palin surprise<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By: Jonathan Martin (Politico.com)<\/p>\n<p>John McCain on Friday announced a running mate whom he met only six months ago and with whom he spoke just once on the phone about the position before offering it in person earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sarahpalinvogue-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>McCain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having search the internet, it is not clear to me that Sarah Palin has received a full vetting. McCain is making a big gamble. In <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4626\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/080829_palin_fist_martin.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sarahpalinvogue.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"288\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}