{"id":4544,"date":"2008-10-29T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2008-10-29T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T00:42:58","slug":"mccain-speechwriter-defects-supports-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"McCain speechwriter defects, supports Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That would be headline splashed across every newswire in the country except that it happened in the other direction. I picked this up from <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/p-j-gladnick\/2008\/10\/29\/obama-speechwriter-switches-mccain-ignored-msm\" target=\"_blank\">Newbusters<\/a>&#8216; PJ Gladnick by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/bitsblog.florack.us\/?p=13152\" target=\"_blank\">Bits Blog<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wendy Button, who became disillusioned with The One and switched to supporting McCain. Here are the highlights of Wendy Button&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2008-10-28\/so-long-obama\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">explanation<\/a> of why she made the switch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I\u2019m a woman writing in the election of 2008, \u201cvery emotional.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Young lady, only when the switch is made from Republican to Democrat will it be mentioned in the MSM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See any major US news outlets reporting it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wendy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4548\" title=\"wendy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wendy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wendy.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wendy-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ya know, with the race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/2008_presidential_election\/daily_presidential_tracking_poll\" target=\"_blank\">tightening to within the margin of error<\/a> and now this defection, you have to wonder what&#8217;s happening inside the Obama campaign. No Democrat would get a sudden attack of conscience less than a week from the victory the media has promised Obama unless there&#8217;s something up.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe the fact that this &#8220;spread the wealth around&#8221; yammering rings a little hollow when Obama fails to fund the school named for him in Kenya that he promised to support, his half brother lives in squalor in Kenya and now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article5042571.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Times Online finds an Obama aunt living in the slums in Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If I was big on that whole &#8220;social justice&#8221; thing, I&#8217;d start questioning Obama&#8217;s committment to the cause based on his hypocritical behavior that doesn&#8217;t seem to follow his talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be headline splashed across every newswire in the country except that it happened in &hellip; <a title=\"McCain speechwriter defects, supports Obama\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4544\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain speechwriter defects, supports Obama<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}