{"id":5310,"date":"2008-11-17T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2008-11-17T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:43:48","slug":"john-mccain-for-secdef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5310","title":{"rendered":"John McCain for SecDef?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noquarterusa.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/senator-john-mccain-as-obamas-secretary-of-defense\/\">No Quarter USA <\/a>seems to think so.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A source in Chicago informed me earlier today that John McCain will be meeting with Obama and his handlers tomorrow in Chicago in order to discuss the possibility of a Secretary of Defense appointment. That McCain will be in Chicago tomorrow is corroborated by an article London Times published one hour ago. The Times, however, claims McCain will most probably not be appointed to a Cabinet position. But he will be consulted on topics on which he and Obama have \u201ccommon ground.\u201d This certainly does not preclude the possibility of an appointment of McCain to Secretary of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Our source maintains that McCain will visit Chicago tomorrow in order to discuss the Secretary of Defense appointment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain would probably not be a terrible SecDef but I seriously doubt that a Pentagon posting is in this.  McCain and Obama couldn\u2019t be further apart on almost every defense issue and the \u201cMaverick\u201d would do nothing but cause division and problems for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Now a posting at Veterans Affairs?  That is certainly a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Of course any cabinet position would cost Obama his greatest ally in the Senate when it comes to his planned amnesty for 20 million criminals.<\/p>\n<p>And if McCain were to leave the Senate, who would provide the ass for Lindsey Graham to firmly plant his nose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Quarter USA seems to think so. A source in Chicago informed me earlier today that &hellip; <a title=\"John McCain for SecDef?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5310\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John McCain for SecDef?<\/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-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310","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=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}