{"id":6249,"date":"2010-04-24T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2010-04-24T08:17:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:17:29","slug":"wiping-the-tears-from-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/wiping-the-tears-from-my-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiping The Tears From My Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=125662980&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1001\" target=\"_blank\">This NPR piece<\/a> about a potential primary challenge to Obama in 2012 is pretty serious, but when I got to the punchline, I knew it was all a setup:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The candidate most likely to try to dethrone the king may not have really emerged yet. As editors at NPR keep shouting, it&#8217;s too early to be talking like this. But what if there is some Palin-like politician lurking in the wings out there whom we haven&#8217;t even thought of? Maybe someone who is a combination of former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, <strong>Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri<\/strong> and the Sisters Sanchez (congresswomen Loretta and Linda) of California. Someone who just may be known as the Next Barack Obama. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Woo!  You had me going there.  Senator McCaskill might as well take a flier on it, though, since she&#8217;s probably going to leave elected government in January 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This NPR piece about a potential primary challenge to Obama in 2012 is pretty serious, but when I got to the punchline, I knew it was all a setup: The candidate most likely to try to dethrone the king may not have really emerged yet. As editors at NPR keep shouting, it&#8217;s too early to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}