{"id":2304,"date":"2008-08-18T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2008-08-18T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T18:20:39","slug":"when-great-joy-slips-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"When Great Joy Slips Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on August 11th at the Huffington Post, they were pushing for Obama to select Wesley Clark as his VP and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/08\/11\/theme-for-third-night-of_n_118221.html\">based on the following logic <\/a>implied that it was a done deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But here&#8217;s one more interesting connection that hints ever-so-slightly toward the selection of a veteran veep, submitted by a sharp reader.<br \/>\nAccording to USA Today, the theme for Wednesday, Aug. 27 is &#8220;Securing America&#8217;s Future,&#8221; which just also happens to be the name of Gen. Wesley Clark&#8217;s political action committee. (The URL for its website is simply &#8220;SecuringAmerica.com,&#8221; but FEC filings list the full name.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was overcome with joy at the thought of this hack stumbling and bumbling through November and single-handedly tanking the entire Obama campaign with him.<\/p>\n<p>Then today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/obama_to_genera\/\">Washington Note <\/a>has news that apparently shatters my dream.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>General Wesley Clark is not attending the Democratic National Convention. I was told by General Clark&#8217;s personal office in Little Rock that he would not be attending.<\/p>\n<p>Clark was informed by Barack Obama&#8217;s people that there was no reason to come.<\/p>\n<p>General Clark has been given no role of any kind at the convention.<br \/>\nRubbing salt in the wound even more, the &#8220;theme&#8221; of Wednesday&#8217;s Democratic convention agenda is &#8220;Securing America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Clark&#8217;s PAC also happens to be called SECURING AMERICA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not just not the Vice Presidential pick but not even invited to the dance!<\/p>\n<p>Ouch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on August 11th at the Huffington Post, they were pushing for Obama to &hellip; <a title=\"When Great Joy Slips Away\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2304\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Great Joy Slips Away<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}