{"id":821,"date":"2008-05-13T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-05-13T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T17:30:24","slug":"mccains-spinelessness-is-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/13\/mccains-spinelessness-is-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s Spinelessness is Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like John Hagee has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2008\/05\/13\/mccain-backer-john-hagee-apologizes-to-catholics\/?mod=WSJBlog\">decided<\/a> that the Catholic Church isn&#8217;t a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14798.html\">Great Whore<\/a>&#8221; after all.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently all those years of preaching were just a bit of a misunderstanding on his part.\u00c2\u00a0 Gosh, I wonder if this has anything to do with the time he&#8217;s been spending with his new BFF John McCain?\u00c2\u00a0 One has to admit that McCain has demonstrated a pretty remarkable talent for compromising his own supposedly core principles (see, e.g., his embrace of previously rejected &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www-tech.mit.edu\/V120\/N9\/mccain_right_9.9w.html\">agents of intolerance<\/a>&#8220;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/05\/08\/john-mccains-penchant-for-skirting-campaign-finance-laws\/\">mockery<\/a> of his own campaign finance reform laws, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2008\/02\/16\/mccain_drops_the_torture_ball\/\">support of torturing<\/a> other human beings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like John Hagee has decided that the Catholic Church isn&#8217;t a &#8220;Great Whore&#8221; after all.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently all those years of preaching were just a bit of a misunderstanding on his part.\u00c2\u00a0 Gosh, I wonder if this has anything to do with the time he&#8217;s been spending with his new BFF John McCain?\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}