{"id":4636,"date":"2008-07-27T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2008-07-27T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T14:33:47","slug":"is-john-mccain-fit-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4636","title":{"rendered":"Is John McCain fit to be President?"},"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\/Macain_car-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <i>While everyone was focusing on Obama&#8217;s world tour last week, Frank Rich puts the spotlight on McCain and raises serious questions whether McCain is ability the see what the priorities of the day are. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>How Obama Became Acting President<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By FRANK RICH  (NYT)<\/p>\n<p>IT almost seems like a gag worthy of<\/p>\n<p>He never would have been treated as a president-in-waiting by heads of state or network talking heads if all he offered were charisma, slick rhetoric and stunning visuals. What drew them instead was the raw power Mr. Obama has amassed: the power to start shaping events and the power to move markets, including TV ratings. (Even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone was focusing on Obama&#8217;s world tour last week, Frank Rich puts the spotlight on McCain and raises serious questions whether McCain is ability <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4636\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Macain_car.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/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-4636","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\/4636","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=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}